Nintendo DS 'TT' cards??

[johnboy]

lol @ Welly

[mjb]

I think about 90% of the people that buy things like games, music and software, clearly don't know there is another way of getting them for free if not at a reduced cost.

Those remaining are the hardcore fans that like to spend the money.

I buy original games for my 360 because my console was bloody expensive and has a 60% failure rate so I didn't want to void its warranty. Also burning DVDs can be very time consuming and frustrating when it decides it can't read the disc half way through a game so dies

If someone cracks the 360 like they did with the original xbox (allowing operation without needing to faff about with dvds), I'll download and play a LOT more, but I'll also buy the ones I enjoy in order to support the developers. That's the way I prefer to do things - I have a substantial collection of CDs at home, but not one of those have I bought without hearing the whole album first I only use the CDs in the garage or for lending out though - it's more convenient to rip them to FLAC and shove them on my fileserver.

DVDs/Blu-ray? I buy TV series and the occasional really good film, but as far as films go, the downloads are better because they're the same quality but without the adverts and anti-piracy warnings. Seriously, those things (which you can't ever skip ARGH) do my nut in.

PC games (when I used a PC for gaming) I just bought to support the developers. I didn't even open the box on a lot of them because the downloaded version was ALWAYS a better experience than messing about installing things, registering things, finding CD keys, installing DRM software, updating, etc


So there it is... "Pirates" deliver a vastly better experience than movie studios, record companies, games distributors, etc