To Buy or to Burn.

I used to be a massive downloader, but lately I've been buying a lot of CDs, particularly imports from Japan. For one thing, when it comes to music I'm a bit of a quality freak, and then I just like collecting things. Its kinda like the way I've always been with books; even when I could just go to a library and borrow a book I'm more likely to buy it from Border's or Waldenbooks. I still download tons of anime though, mostly fan-subs of unlicensed series but sometimes licensed series as well. Though I have bought around ten or so series I'd already downloaded in their entirety.

As far as modding a system like PS2, I'd definitely go for that. Even though my Japanese skills are terrible, I'd still be very interested in buying games from Japan; but the stupid media companies have decided that I shouldn't be allowed to play them on my legally bought hardware. The way I see it, if I bought the hardware, and I bought the game, I should be able to play it; I shouldn't need to buy new hardware that is identical except for a couple of bytes in the ROM and some stored text.

Jam it back in, in the dark.