a question about illegal iso files and why they exist

[jonc2006]

i hope this isnt breaking any rules cus im not intrested in dwnlding these things illegally, im just curious as to why internet found isos even exist and why people would make them when all ive read about their bad quality. it seems like a waste of time and (money?) to put these illegal copies out there when they dont even work, like what do they get out of it? and btw, a good way to cut back on the threads requesting them or fixing them, why dont you change that little requirement when you register your account that makes you type in some random letter and number grouping to make sure its not a automated program filling the account out,and instead make you type in "we do not condone piracy" as the word or phrase requirement or some of the other phrases i see posted in almost every iso question posted in this forum.

[JKKDARK]

Because they are very stupid and don't like the video games really, I think.

[FrostyTheSnowman]

Because piracy is bigger than you think. Alongside the usefulness of the internet, you will also find it to be a pirate's playground.

[jonc2006]

right but still,whats the point of spending your time making or posting an illegel copy when it doesnt even work? what would they possibly get out of that. and why is it that if downloading or posting isos to download is illegal, why do some sites ignore that and put them up anyway, couldnt they get shut down?

[FrostyTheSnowman]

Most ISOs off the 'net actually work fine. Although, some genuinely don't. They post faulty ones for the same reasons that viruses are made, and those reasons are:

1. because nothing is more funny than someone else's misery
2. and it makes YOUR life harder.

And as for the sites that provide them, i'm not quite sure. Popularity? To spite the law? No one really knows, but I would assume it's because they get money from the mass amounts of ads they throw at you when you enter their site.

[ShadowDancer]

It's like asking why is there sh!tty mp3s in the p2p networks? Why are there low quality movies in the net? oh yeah jonc2006, welcome to the internet.

[industrian]

Western economy systems work on supply and demand. Fat bastard wants hamburgers, McDonalds opens next door to him (etc). The same thing goes for everything else. Fifteen year old yaoi scat fan wants Final Fantasy IX, a games shop opens next door to him. But can't be assed paying for it... so some other like minded individual puts it online. It may be a good copy, it may be a trainer-ridden or half-baked copy but it is an illegal copy.

Plus, the latter yaoi scat fan who put it online has probably got a full five-ten pages of ad banners and "vote for me to get this..." crap on his site, so he is making an illegal profit as well (with torrents this may or may not be the issue, i don't know, it's like Mariah Carey: everyone's been there except me.)

I own every freaking game I have on my PC (ISO or PC game). In the same way that I own every CD that I have wma files of on my PC. They are all ripped from my own disks because... I can control the quality that way. I can make my wmas 192kbps or 320kbps. I can make my ISOs with or without subchannels. In laymans: I KNOW what is going into these files. When someone downloads things illegally, you don't know WTF is going to be in them. And that is one of the morals of this story.

The other is: it's the good ol' Internet. I'm sure Berners-Lee never saw this s**t coming when he took the hypertext idea and connected it to the TCP and DNS ideas.

[guest.r]

Image files are very good for backup. CD is a crappy data storage media. A kid, cat, charp object or drunk girlfriend can end it's existance in a very simple way. Most games are only playable and/or available on a CD or DVD so some practical precaution is welcome and isos are very suitable for that.

The hard drive industry also sells bigger drives more quickly, game companies don't have much expenses with replacement disks...

About the illegal part:

Well, if WW3 happens much info will get lost in the havoc. It's for the good of the mankind that quality software is well distributed and archieved.

[jonc2006]

yeah, i see now. just in case, i hope everyone knows i wasnt trying to start anything too serious in here or break any rules, i was just kinda curious after reading a ****load of closed threads about how poeple couldnt get a iso they downloaded to work. i just dont see a point to putting up a messed up file for people to download if you know for a fact its f'ed up,wouldnt people eventually look elsewhere for one that is work, or *gasp* actually buying the game legally!?!?!, you think you would want to put up working ones so people would keep coming to their sites. oh well dumb pirates

[__Xzyx987X]

Regarding the whole messed up ISO thing, I don't think that many people knowingly put up ISOs that don't work. It's just that a lot of people burn their ISOs on CD the play on modded consoles, and sometimes an ISO that works fine on a console won't work on an emulator. Especially ones with trainers inserted.

[industrian]

Originally Posted by jonc2006

i just dont see a point to putting up a messed up file for people to download if you know for a fact its f'ed up,wouldnt people eventually look elsewhere for one that is work, or *gasp* actually buying the game legally!?!?!, you think you would want to put up working ones so people would keep coming to their sites. oh well dumb pirates

There is no point nor justification. It's called being human.

[Cid Highwind]

Originally Posted by industrian

Western economy systems work on supply and demand. Fat bastard wants hamburgers, McDonalds opens next door to him (etc).

Hey watch the language, I'm no fat bastard. Although I fear the day an MD will open up near my place

I own every freaking game I have on my PC (ISO or PC game). In the same way that I own every CD that I have wma files of on my PC. They are all ripped from my own disks because... I can control the quality that way. I can make my wmas 192kbps or 320kbps. I can make my ISOs with or without subchannels. In laymans: I KNOW what is going into these files. When someone downloads things illegally, you don't know WTF is going to be in them. And that is one of the morals of this story.

Hehe, but we all know you've got waaaay too much money.


Also, when transferring data, there's always a chance of it getting corrupted right? So whenever file sharing is done, minor errors might occur that will cause an image not to work properly?

[fireblaster_lyz]

Nope. I don't think that's possible.
Bittorrent have hash checks on them to ensure the file retains its integery.

So, its a bad image after all, if you d/led it off the net.
Use you own CDs.