Can Emulators Replace Computer games?Or a Computer games piracy?

Some emulators are very good now. MAME anyone! which does a near perfect job of emulation. With regards to piracy technically yes there are piracy laws being broken, but the only machines which can be emulated well are all old machines where the games arent sold new anymore and so no more revenue can be generated from them. But as these titles have been copyrighted and they havent been released into the public domain it is still piracy. Unless you own the original ROM. But then why wouldnt you just play it on your console?

id say its both. cause sometimes after youve played an emulated game, its just not the same on the computer and you want to go out and buy it to play on a console.