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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'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/DVDs simply disappeared. I never understood what made game media piracy nonviable with newer consoles. Why can'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'd be happy to have an answer from any of the hackers here :).<p>Edit: I'm not talking about "home piracy" where you copy your CD in your PC using cloning software, I'm talking about industrial one, you could buy these games in real stores that also sold other stuff brought from China.