Is it illegal to...

[Littledude]

Is it considered pirating if I own a game for xbox 360 but download a torrent for it to play on my computer?

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[Illidan]

yeah

[Madmitten]

yes
"BUY THE GAME FOR EVERY COMPUTER YOU USE.....
SO DONT COPY!"

[Littledude]

yes
"BUY THE GAME FOR EVERY COMPUTER YOU USE.....
SO DONT COPY!"

Don't copy that floppy reference?

[Radial543]

If you owned the game for PC and say you lost it, it wouldn't be illegal to torrent it. If you own it for Xbox, though, and wanted to get it for PC via torrent, it definitely would.

[dkamm65]

If you owned the game for PC and say you lost it, it wouldn't be illegal to torrent it.

Yes it would be. When you buy a game, or software for that matter, you only purchased the license to use it as long as you have the original copy.

For console games, it is perfectly legal to create BACKUPS of a game you bought, but if you were to lose or break the original copy, those backups are illegal to own.

If you were to use your logic, it wouldn't be illegal if you bought a game then gave it to a friend, then torrented it afterward.

[Hugums]

Err Maybe it depends on the game? Is it freeware/shareware/abandonware?

[Madmitten]

Err Maybe it depends on the game? Is it freeware/shareware/abandonware?

Is it considered pirating if I own a game for xbox 360 but download a torrent for it to play on my computer?

[Bisjac]

For example.
Half life on xbox isn't the same game as halflife on the pc.
So that wouldn't be legal.

I'm not sure all the rules for emulation though.
Sure they say you can have a rom if you own the real game also (and some more rules about only having it if your burned that rom yourself)

But then everyone forgets about the system. A snes/ps2/xbox bios are still in copyright.
So the act of emulating itself isn't (always) legal

[Littledude]

Alright, I was hoping it would be legal to download Oblivion so I could play it with mods and stuff but whatever.