hold horses I just found out about this thread this morning and remember that Gamestop as one such location and probably a ton of other places around the entire world, DO INDEED, burn fake copies of discs and somehow sometimes place a FAKE sticker on the top to make it look like to real copy of the disc. BUT? people can also do that with CD/DVD/ and even blu-ray discs. I did a ton of technical work in my lifetime BUT don't know everything there is to know about it. Sometimes people can also use a image top burner CD ROM and also burn the disc image into the top of the disc as well. THIS IS OLLLLLD technology possibly 2004 or older at least.
Doing this IS illegal unless you Do not sell your custom made disc. Just like fake chips in a cartridge? yup it can be done also with any kind of game musical CD or Movie you want to.
I just stick to ROMS from now on in any game I don't have, Most times though those games will NEVER run upon startup or will freeze upon playing them OR, in the boot process of the console games, at least
HP Pavilions came with a free image burner ROM and with a free Image Burner Disc sometimes, I know becuase I had one
I mean if want to you could even make your own ink LITTERLY for that TOP disc image, but good luck finding one of them legally
