Piracy - Who here is a "pirate" ???

[Cypher1980]

I used to be a major pirate back in my youth. Now I'm a law abiding do gooder.

Back in the days of the Spectrum mid 1980's game media was cassette tapes and pretty much all of us had a twin deck dub stereo.

We were all about 11-13 years of age in my little video game group but my god we were organised.

I would split the weeks new releases up between the group.

The rules were simple.

1. We take it in strict order to purchase a new game with our own money.
2. Once purchased copies are made and distributed on the Monday at school.
3. You keep the original titles you bought.

The group was about 10 strong so more than enough to cover the weekly new releases.

However the reasons we did it were simple.

We had no income. Saved up pocket money was all we had to purchase games with and that meant for me 1 game a month MAX.

Now I buy games second hand mainly and resell them as soon as I am done.

It means I can easily fund my gaming habit as each game only costs me a few bucks to own before I pass it on.

I will ocassionally buy a new release game but it has to press all the right buttons.

I dont pirate anymore as I want the videogame market to do well. I'm a little dis allusioned however by the monster the VG world has become.

Call me an old romantic but the industry I grew up with seems to have lost a lot of its soul as it has grown up.