For those of you wondering if a $150 BBA (BroadBand Adapter) is worth on eBay...

[Areku]

Far, far away from pretending selling anything nor advertising it, I was trying to clear some things off, as as I said, not everyone lives in the US, where megabit lines, T3, OC3 and stuff like that can reach your home in 10 days.

Here in Spain we're still geting into ADSL (yes, you read it right, A DSL) and it's not affordable by must of the people.

I'm also tired of getting JAP rips or even US (english) rips on RPG games like Skies of Arkadia, Shenmue or stuff like that. Those games, if not in your local language, are almost hard to play.

It's also slow to get a full working game even if you're lucky and have ADSL (it takes AT LEAST 6 hours to get a FULL ISO in the BEST of the cases), FTPs/Hotlines/Gnutellas are most often payfordownload, IRCrap is often waiting LONG queues to find out the next day that the fserve is gone and you 're still missing one simple .r?? file!, etc...

Also, as I said, DC still rules. We all know it's gone, no more hardware production, but the console still phuckin' rules. I don't also think you need to be a phuckin' professional ripper but given the amount of newbies crossing these forums I guess you compose such idea from "us". Most of people don't even write in here, just read and learn.

I don't also get your point on "paying a stranger"... eBay has provided me (again, no phuckin' advertising, just facts) with reliability on getting old stuff or rare items otherwise I could not get anywhere else... There are phuckers and cheaters everywhere, that's a fact also, but there's a thing called profile, another one called insurance and so on...

To my personal view, I mentioned "backup" to avoid entering into piracy discussion; I thought that's already OBVIOUS that if you pay $150 for a BBA, you won't buy a phuckin' game again, ever.

so:

1- you DON'T have to buy a game again if you don't want to.
2- Ripping is NOT that hard.
3- not everyone has your connection speed.

So as far as your personal reasons, it's obvious you don't need it Was not trying to convince any1 but just replying to some posts I seen regarding overpriced items on ebay like the BBA...

I think it also goes with the market you live in. The US is the US and the rest of the world is... ok I won't enter in phuckin' politicals here....

... or is it a US only forum?