IANAL but is that really true? You don't "Buy" anything on steam, you're licensing a subscription to use the software under their terms. Downloading a torrent wouldn't be covered by that. Purchasing a game though and having the same data backed up on a device is covered (identical to a torrent download), at least I thought that was the legal case for rom's and such even being able to exist in the first place.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

I think torrenting someone else's copy of a game is still illegal regardless of if you own a copy yourself

I'm talking purely ethically, I don't consider it to be any different where I paid for the game originally if I can no longer access it via that platform

Pretty sure roms are only legal if you rip them yourself from your own console.

I don't think it's legal for people to distribute them but torrenting makes that an unwinnable game of wack a mole to shut down so they don't bother usually