[ottoman]

I think were getting into two separate issues here:

Firstly its illegal (in the uk at least) to make a backup of a ps2 game anyway.

The arguement goes something like this:

Consumer: Generic software law states that I am permitted to make one backup of any software I LEGALLY OWN.

Sony: But the PS2 won't run backups so why would you need to.

Consumer: Cos I've got this mod chip fitted which allows me to boot backups.

Sony: Great, we'll bring a test case against some mod chip suppliers and fitters and make the whole mod chip fitting process illegal.

And they did sucessfully. Therefore law would consider the process of even making a backup illegal.


As for the P1ss poor games that turn up on the PS2.......Sony are very picky on the release of the console. The initial software releases are very carefully quality checked to be of the top standards but after 6 months or so they just don't care. They'll sell the dev kit to anyone and as a result, any old crap that will fit onto a cd or dvd. I don't care if it takes 1000 years to develope a game. Its either good or bad...It's either worth the money or its not. And blaming Piracy for killing the game industry is rediculous. If a game is really good, people will buy it. Whether they copy games or not. If a game sucz no one will buy it anyway hence the developer will suffer whether people are copying it or d/ling it. We simply need better games...

Jay, consider this.....If there was no way to copy or pirate a game people would still not buy crap games and the developers would still suffer just as much because there games wouldn't sell. And i don't believe for a second that prices would fall if piracy didn't exist. People are greedy by nature mostly, especially business people and if people are willing to pay the price they set then why drop it!