What was the thing that started your pirating adiction?

i'm kinda wondering how we all got here, together, as a family on this forum, like what started all of our pirating addictions...i know mine was when i saw my school have nice programs (like photoshop),and i've pirated ever since..

what's your story?

 

When I saw I could get $34.99 DS games for free. Also being able to find old games without paying tons of money on eBay.

 

music :

and games (reflexive and gamehouse)

 

haha, nice, wish mine had a good reason!

hmmm...i didn't consider music pirating, i just considered it available...

 

It was primarily music with video games on the side. The focus has definitely shifted though with video games being the priority and music being kind of secondary.

Never been much for pirating programs or anything.

 

free stuff

 

the cost of games

too expensive

 

definitly, i'm mostly into programs/games...not so much music anymore..

quoted for truth!

that's dependent on location...but still, the cheaper the better!

 

There's already a thread like this but my start was that no matter how hard I looked I couldn't find a copy of Contact for the DS anywhere.

 

The knowledge of knowing I can.

 

It was when my friend gave me an emulator patch and 6 N64 roms. I did my homework and started doing everything. I have basically every movie I have ever wanted/will watch and so many games that I haven't played all of them yet, let alone beat them.

 

Windows Xp Professional $150
Pokemon Pearl $35
Time Crisis 4 (PS3) $54
Adobe Photoshop $90
Adobe CS4 Master Edition $500
"There are some things money can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard."......i mean ur, the internet.......
but yeah.....music first, then games, then programs & pc games & systems, then i went old school with gc games....i still do the rest, but not as much.....i borrow (steal) the internet from my neighbor now and its not as fast........
$829 by the way for all the things listed above.......you know how many cheeseburgers or games (that i like) i could buy with that! do ya!..............

 

This

And this

 

Back in the 90's when snes games had stopped been sold I saw my friend playing one on pc.
I downloaded zsnes and been playing ever since.

 

its free

 

Why walk home when you can drive?

 

My classmates (who had their own DSs, before I got mine) were talking about ROM Sites and such so I decided to jump in the fun (after i got my DS)

 

ROM Hacks & Fan Translations.

It also helped that I have one of these:

 

You have two Wii's? lol

When I got my Wii and I saw on the internet that it was hacked.
Since then I began to learn about the DS and the Wii so I could hack them too. Still learning.

 

Not even my image

Just something I found & used via Google.

I was referring to the big closed up picture of a device that sits on top of an SNES that uses 3'5" floppy disks