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Didn't the pirates find out that they could copy the games onto regular CDs using some backdoor from the format of Karaoke CDs? You just need that famous loader CD to swap discs.
I've heard the pirates soon optimised the layout of the data on their versions so that there was less strain of the drive.
That was a thing is PS1 I believe. The Dreamcast out of the box just worked with pirated CDs.