>Gamecube disks spin counter-clockwise as an antipiracy measure

I saw this one tossed around a lot during the 6th gen. Of course, all you had to do to prove it's false is to press eject while the Gamecube was reading a disk and you would see it was spinning clockwise just like any other optical drive since it takes a few seconds for the disk to stop spinning.

What is true though is that Gamecube disks were written from the outside to the center instead from the center out like most formats, maybe some people confused this to mean the disks spun backwards, but it was still not an anti-piracy measure, it was done so data loads faster. Anyone dumping a game would just hack the Gamecube itself and use it's own drive anyway, just like people did to read disks from nearly any other system that used a proprietary format such as the Dreamcast.