Why is it "illegal" to backup my games?

[Kasz216]

twesterm said:

Galaki said:

If it's not illegal, then why it is impossible for me to play from backup without going through modding my system? Which is not what I wanted to do.

They want the system as closed as possible because if they didn't, something like the Dreamcast would happen.  You could simply copy a disc and play it, backup or not, so that's what people did. 

Edited to use the VGchartz numbers for sold not shipped.

 

Dreamcast sold 8.2 million to consumers and 64.80 Million piecs of software.

 

That's an attach rate of 7.9.  Which is I believe is a higher attach rate then all 3 main consoles now... though i may be wrong.

That's not even considering that the fact that Dreamcast was discontinued early!

 

Did people pirate a lot of games on the dreamcast?  Probably... looks like it didn't actually hurt sales though, making that a poor reason for the closed system arguement.