Simulators

[M0nkeyj1m]

There's still a great deal of work involved in back engineering most products
A straight copy of a CD is all profit

Without a doubt, a lot of work goes in to pirating, ripping (backward engineering) someone elses work and it can take days, weeks or months to do it.!

Just because you spend many hours, days or weeks backward engineering someone elses work, so that you can re-produce it and pass it off has your own doesn't really stop it being theft (pirating).

The main issue in society these days, is that there appears to be levels of illegality; its ok to backward engineer but it's unacceptable to copy (pirate).