If there is a working torrent for a game I want to play I'll download it. Although a lot of multiplayer games don't work when pirated so I normally only pirate single player games unless I really love the game and think it's worth paying for.
When Netflix came out I put down my pirate hat for a while... now that there is company after company coming out with there own streaming service.. well. that hat is going back on. If I had one service where I could get every movie and tv series, I would pay... even if it was 5x the amount of what a subscription currently costs.
My opinion on this is that A lot of big companies try to make piracy like theft; I wouldn't steal a car, but I would steal a good design. If I liked another person's apartment, I would try to make mine look like someone else's... but that's not stealing. There are probably millions of copies of that game in existence. Thats firmly my belief, but this is the developers' livelihoods, and if you have the money, do spend it on the product that you want. It will definitely support said developer.
piracy is not good. but there is simply no option is someone has no money, or comes from a poorer part of the world. i believe that piracy will in the longterm help as more people will buy products
