It was quickly to the point though, I guess by 1999 to 2000, that you could download and burn to CD-R games before you could even buy them in a US store and run them on a DC that wasn't even modded. There was a short window before and after it died out that the biggest draw to buying a DC was the piracy. I think, anyway. Having to mod a console is a huge overall road block, one missing in the DC scene.