The thing is, no matter if you own the game you're still not allowed to download it.

But I guess viewers barely ask streamers if they acutally purchased the game or not because pretty much everyone got a game at least once by just downloading it somewhere.

Just think of the Super Mario 64 hacks. I guess there's no other way than downloading them.

Hi guys,

so I thought about getting into speedrunning/streaming.

I read about Twitch rules getting banned for streaming a pirated game.

One thing that I noticed is that many (famous) speedrunners play games on emulator and I highly doubt that they actually purchased all of the games and even if I don't think they made the effort of dumping them to their PCs, they just downloaded them.

So let's suppose someone actually asks you if you've purchased + dumped the game you play on an emulator and you have no clue about dumping a game.

What should one say?