[PhasmaFelis]

That's pretty hilarious that they were doing that even before widespread internet. I think a lot of crackers got so caught up in building and maintaining face in their tiny community that they forgot the actual reason they were doing it, i.e. "people want to play video games without paying for them".

[vidarh]

I think that to a lot of them, this was no different than a sports team or similar - it was a competition, and the games were just a tool.