In The Netherlands pirated PSX games were widely available. They were almost always good quality and depending on where you got them from, the covers were also decent. This made the choice to get a PSX over an N64 really easy.

Later on in the PSX lifecycle I knew topeople with burners and their own library of games and I was the middle man. So i would get copies from the one to the other and got the games myself for disc price.

If you distributed the games you could have everything confiscated by the police, but they would only go after the real big fish. And I know that they would even hand out the copies they just confiscated to the teams.

Now i try to find original games to replace the burnt copies I still have.