It's not too hard to see that you downloaded it from a site. How do people know you downloaded the music in those piracy cases?
If you own the disk or have the digital recite, its essentially the same as backing up the disk or downloading it to your computer. You have the right to back up your property, so they'd have a tough time arguing you pirated the game when you own the actual disk/cart Also don't think I'm defending piracy here, because I'm not. I think people who pirate are self entitled man-children.
Seems a tad bit shady to me. The domain registrar uses Privacypost as email and I assume the service provider lives up to it's name, the phone number and P.O. box are fake, and the registrar name is just a randomly generated string of letters + that is all the info provided.http://www.pir.org/get/whois
This is absolutely illegal. It's basically hosting ROMs online.
No, its like buying a game and losing it and then going to the store and stealing a copy. "But I bought it at one time!" Doesn't work that way.
I didn't say anything about losing it. It's a loving law that you are able to digitally back up any media that comes on a disk. That is why ripping music from a CD is allowed. The brown townogy you are using is completely wrong. It's a LAW so it's more like you go buy a game at a store and they have a policy where if you lose it at any point ever you can bring in the receipt and they give you a new one.