@yfzdude Owning a copy of a game does not grant anyone a free copy of existing ROM files of this game. First off, when you buy a cartridge (or any other physical media), then you buy this one single particular item. And you get the right to play and do whatever you want with it, including selling and reading its ROMs. You never paid for a digital representation of this game (ROM files), but you are allowed to read the data for yourself. The ROM files for this game are also read/dumped from other cartridges you never paid for. So downloading someone else ROM files means you never get the same game as you paid for and therefore cannot be seen as a "backup".
That is at least the situation is for cartridges and cds and other physical medias for games, at least from my understanding.
