Missed writing in for the piracy episode, bugger. My first taste of piracy was actually from a young age, I would often record music from the radio or we'd swap albums with each other and copy those, but when I was 7 or 8, it was 1987 so it was either late in one school year or early in the next one, I don't remember having the NES or not, which we got around the UK summer launch, anyway; let's say I was 8. I was still playing a lot of Speccy back then with my dad being a gamer, we would buy new games most weekends, seeing as though games were less than a tenner. Seeing as I would get most games and being the eldest child I hated sharing my things, so lending out games to friends was something I was (still am) loathe to do, so after declining some friends from borrowing a game, I think it was OutRun, one kid said I'll buy a copy off you, I get $$ in my eyes as I thought about this, so I decided to start copying games and selling them to kids at school for £1 each (£1 will be worth about £4000 come April) I was having a great time, putting that money into buying new games, until one day my dad asked where all his blank cassettes were, I then thought my dad would be proud of his young entrepreneur, of course I had not taken into account that me making £20 a week was not enough to cover the cost my dad had made when had spent £120 on 50 cassettes. I had to give my dad the money I had left to compensate a little toward the cassettes, he wasn't mad about the piracy as you know, he was going to be using those cassettes to pirate music, but when my mum found out she gave my Speccy away to my dad's little sister as she was the moral compass.
After my nan died in 2015 we were going through her things in her house and I came across my old Speccy game box and all my games were there including the amazing OutRun with it's soundtrack cassette. I gave them to the computer museum as a way to repent for my past life as a digital pirate.