I, for one, really am not "in it for piracy", but I would be lying if I said that I haven't pirated something before. I do have exactly 5 downloaded game CIAs installed on my 3DS: two to try out the games, which I have not played in at least 6 months, another one is for a similar reason, although it's a remake of a game I already own three times in different formats, one is a different language version of a game I do own, which is for research purposes, and one is a leaked prototype of a game I do own the retail version of.
My main reason for having hacked my 3DS is basically to have more control over the system, for messing around with homebrew (including, yes, emulators) and for messing around with specific games and their innards and save data. Piracy is a side effect that's not all that tempting to me personally, and that I wouldn't miss if it did not exist.
Roms used by emulators are also piracy (even if you own the original game, except if you dump it yourself I guess), especially when some of those games are sold on the eshop as Virtual Consoles games
And even for 3DS retail games, owning another version (language) of the game doesn't give the right to download another version.
I understand you point and see you what mean, but basically, it's still piracy. I have like 50 original retail 3DS games but still, as I have a few (japanese) games installed as .cia on my N3DS, it mean I'm into piracy (even for the games I originally have on cart as I haven't dumped them myself but just downloaded .cia version of them because it's faster), even if I bought Gateway because it could play japanese games.
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