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Originally Posted by Quailboy
I know MMM, I'm a hypocrite when it comes to Pirating games.
Its just the Sega made it so damn easy to do on Dreamcast..almost everyone did.
All you had to do was burn the ripped file onto any blank DVD..no hardware mods..no special burning techniques, just burn and play.
The reason video game systems are still alive is because of Piracy.
If the Dreamcast had stayed alive and did as well as say, Sony's PS2 and still had the amount of Piracy that it did..it would be outstanding. Company's wouldn't care about Piracy as much, because they were still making money.
Because the Dreamcast bombed, Sega nearly went down the drain, company's took notice and then acted accordingly, adding all sorts of security features so little nine year old Timmy down the road wouldn't be able to play Halo 3 on a nice $2 Verbatim DVD-R DL.
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I must be old.
Your perception of right and wrong is so different from mine it is honestly disturbing.
The reason video game systems are still alive is because of Piracy.
The fact that you capitalize the word "piracy" is, I hope, just a pinky error. But if you honestly think this concept has any roots in reality tells me you live in a fantasy world much more fantastic than the n00bs that come here and think that Japan is like an anime series.
I don't need to tell you the Dreamcast was a much more popular system in Japan than it was in the US (though buyers, like myself, still think it is one of the best systems ever)...and it lived a longer lifespan with graduation-type games and mah-jong games that are a little more adult and have no audience in the US.
But saying "Piracy" is what keeps the video game market alive is as retarded as saying DWI's keep alcohol popular. Seriously. Pull your head out.