Urgh, theres always someone on about Piracy like at least once a month trying to Twist it so it seems harmless and silly to be illegal... so annoying
Im tired of hearing all the same excuses and cop outs about it too.
"If they made games cheaper", "I Cant afford it" - 1st one is thanks to the piracy itself price goes up, 2nd one is situational fair do's as long as you dont say i cant afford so its fine
"DRM" Piracy is again the root cause of its exsistance its a self inflicted wound
"Its not stealing its sharing" its still breaking ELUA's and TOU's its supposed to be 1 game 1 machine + 1 backup for a reason.
Now please dont get me wrong Downloadin one to Try it out as theres no demo n shit, Fine knock yerself out better than to try n buy then to buy and hate, and to me if its not made any more so the original Dev's wont see the money its fair game like are you gonna ever see Nintendo Start reproducing the Super Castlevania 4 carts or pressing new Luigi's Mansion disc's for gamecube? It annoys me a little not that people download games or even always downloads games, fine Pirate till you got an eye patch, parrot and wooden leg for all I care its when they try to Justify it in a way that makes it seem 100% harmless and even to some extent there the victim. someone even once mentioned to me something funny "hey if they can afford to build that high end gaming pc or that new 360, ps3 surely they can afford to pay for one or two games"
My Normal answer to "games are too expensive on PC" is "Steam" normally. Say what you like about the lack of Hard copies and what nots but theres normally at least 5 offers on at any given time with huge discounts of like 75% on a decent title 2 times a week. I Dont have tones of cash and I buy my steam games normally when there on offer but its made legal PC gaming very much more affordable to me, In fact full price wise of a game that was over 15€ ive only bought a few Orange Box, Sonic n Sega All Stars Racing and Fallout New Vegas, and when steam has there large sales I buy in bulk.
Theres also something about owning the game legally over pirating it, actually getting it legally feels alot better too.
These are MY PERSONAL THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS