Bootleggers, to be precise. This is piracy in it's worst form. Not only theft, but profitting at the expense of the developers. They had it coming. And not all folks who download isos are pirates, either. In a purely technical sense, yes, I suppose. But many, such as myself, download isos for one of two reasons: 1) I want to know if the product I'm planning on spendin $50 is worth my hard-earned cash (or will even run properly on my system), and there's no demo available to find out, or 2) in the case of my PSP, even if I KNOW I'm going to love a game and pay for it (IE: God of War), I still want the ISO instead of the UMD. It's quieter, UMDs are a pain in the ass to carry around, and with new games (again, such as GOW) running at the newly unlocked 333Mhz I want all the battery life I can get, and a spinning UMD cuts that down significantly, and it's just easier to download an ISO than rip it myself. I download lots of stuff, but don't consider myself a pirate at all. Well, perhaps with movies, as I watch them months before the DVD is available. But even then nobody loses out, as I've either already seen the film in the theater if I ever had any intention of doing so anyway, or will buy the DVD when it's released because it looks nicer in my collection and has extra features.

I just download it, check the gameplay for couple hours, stop, go to gamestop and buy the game, get rid of the pirate copy.



If it suck then I not buying it and I just throw it away.