Why is it "illegal" to backup my games?

[Khuutra]

Kasz216 said:

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. 

Dreamcast sold 8.9 Million consoles...

and sold 52.9 Million pieces of software.

An attach rate of over 6.5 games per system for a system that was discontinued so early.

The dreamcast really wasn't pirated to all hell.  I'm not even sure i've ever heard sony once complain about piracy on the Dreamcast.

Actually, Sony got all up in arms about Bleem! on the  Dreamcast, if I remember.

They lost every single rendered decision but kept Bleem in court until they went bankrupt.