Thank you all very much for your responses to my rather direct question. I had not taken into account the fact that many companies do "re-release" old games, that is a good point, though I am sure the ratio of older games that get re-released versus those that will never see the light of a TV/computer screen again is quite small, even more so perhaps for magazines. Also I find the old "Oh yeah I bought a bunch of games/magazines a while back so I don't feel guilty about downloading them for free now" while morally understandable I doubt it would ever hold up in a court of law lol unless you could perhaps prove that you actually did purchase the original/remake or whatever, in which case I can't see why there would be a problem but who knows. It would be nice if there really were some definite laws with regards to all this but I suppose it hasn't really reared it's head (yet) as a "pertinent" issue for law makers.
I guess I am just a bit anal, especially when it comes to potential legal issues, I want to make sure I am always in the right (gosh what a wonderful world it would be if everyone thought the same lol) j/k, again thanks for everyones input.