Not really, think of this scenario
Early 2000's I've an old virge I'm no longer using to so give it to a friend who just needs a basic card for a parts machine.
He doesn't care about the software and I don't want to waste time digging around my game cd's
Now in a few years time if he download a copy then that 1 copy has multiplied. doesn't matter my CD is effectively useless without the card or maybe I'm playing in software mode.
That's the technical/legal side of the argument.
Me personally am grateful warez examples exist as lets face it in the example above I probably threw away that CD either before or defiantly after giving away the card meaning the S3D version would be lost to time.