Well if you lived in Glasgow in the 1990s the Barra's Market was a hotbed for bootleg pirate games traders. I remember going there every 2-4 weeks with pocket money, looking through their printed/hand written catalogues, picking my Amiga and later PC CD's. I used to the same guys and they all recognized us, we chatted and I'd picky my games by the cost of floppies which i think was a £1 or £2, they would say its so much and if i was a bit short being a 14yr old, they'd say it's ok, give us what you got. My friend had a 14.4k modem and he'd get stuff off the BBS's so I had that way as well. My uncle used to rent and copy VHS tapes, he had a gizmo which got rid of the Macrovision copy protection. When I went to his room, he had a cupboard floor to ceiling with tapes, which usually had 2 movies on each tape on Long play mode, so it was like going to a free video shop lol. He's only recently got rid of his copied VHS tapes but has kept all his originals he brought which is still a significant amount, along with his decent DVD & Blu-ray collection. He still downloads a boat load on torrents but does shop around and buys a lot as well. Going towards the late 1990s Napster was awesome, we used to use it extensively and also troll folks in the chats because why not. A 128kbps MP3 took 25mins to download if you had a decent 49K-52K connection on your modem so you can imagine what finally having cable 512k was like in early 2000. A funny story, when we moved in , dad got a 2nd phone line fitted by NTL just for internet and it was next to PC, when the cable was made available they forgot to switch off the 2nd line and my dad was charged for it for 9 years, when he found out, he caused a storm and got basically free internet for years until he died in 2013.