I never downloaded pirated games myself from BBS boards or wherever and can't think of anyone that did. But I did end up trading a couple of baseball card sized boxes of games for a couple of SNES games back in the day. lol
Thing that also discouraged me from copying disks among the few friends that had Amigas, was that the copiers themselves were usually $50+. If I had that much money to spend on a game, I'd just as soon have the box, manual, etc. Guess I'm strange that way
