This is during the era when the N64, PS1, SNES, Dreamcast or Sega Genesis were popular. Games back then were released physically via disc or cartridge, meaning distributors or publishers would've implemented anti-piracy (like Lenslok) measures onto physical copies but some knew how to tamper with anti-piracy if they have a computer using other sources of capturing data (floppy disks).

Also, games at the time were 'simple' to torrent but with a catch (dial up was still a thing at the time meaning downloads could take a while if you have a PC). Discs were more straight forward than "torrenting" cartridges (unless you have connections with the manufacturer on smuggling circuit boards). Like with movies, games that came on discs were "torrented" through CDs by using a PC.

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[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 26 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

My grandpa and I would go to the video store , hire out a bunch of overnighter ps1 games, go home, copy them all, go back to drop off the ones we got earlier that day and grab the rest, go home copy those and return the others again, we did this every time they got new games.

[–] kanera@feddit.cl 11 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

thats beautiful

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 9 points 17 hours ago

He's the one who introduced me to piracy, I think I was like 5 when we pirated my first copy of Windows 3.1

[–] RogueBanana@piefed.zip 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Based grandpa

[–] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Yeah he was gangster, at one point we were running an underground piracy ring on the school holidays.