[inigyou]

So a console game loses its copyright if you emulate it?

[satvikpendem]

A game is a specific work to be copied so no, but the system it runs on can still be without copyright.

[echoangle]

The game doesn’t but the emulator doesn’t necessarily infringe copyright in itself just because it is based on the original console.

[inigyou]

So what does that have to do with a copyright laundering machine?

[satvikpendem]

A copyright laundering machine has no copyright itself and anything it ingests does not need to concern itself with its own copyright because the output has none anyway.