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There is one thing about video-game piracy that I never understood. Back when I was a kid, there was a lot of piracy for Playstation 1 games. In my home country you could buy any game for the price of a Big Mac. It didn&#x27;t matter that the game CDs contained copy-protection, the CDs you could buy also had them and were indistinguishable from the original CDs.<p>Then PS2 came (or was it PS3?) and all the pirate CDs&#x2F;DVDs simply disappeared. I never understood what made game media piracy nonviable with newer consoles. Why can&#x27;t the pirates simply copy every single bit of the newer game media as they did before?. I think the WII had some piracy CDs easily available but you also had to mod your console somehow. I&#x27;d be happy to have an answer from any of the hackers here :).<p>Edit: I&#x27;m not talking about &quot;home piracy&quot; where you copy your CD in your PC using cloning software, I&#x27;m talking about industrial one, you could buy these games in real stores that also sold other stuff brought from China.