[QUOTE="mickymanga"]Just a few things to remember...
1. IF you have the money, then more likely than not you're going to buy the game rather than downloading it illegally.
2. If you DON'T have the (sufficient) money, you're not going to buy it anyway.
3. If you DON'T have the (sufficient) money, but you want the game...what will the average user do? Right, he will look for some free copies, preferably from the internet.
4. There are guys that are not interested in buying games for various reasons (for example, it's "not worth the money" or so), but they KNOW, they can get it free...why not try it out? More often than not it won't hurt them.
From personal experience, you download illegal copies simply because it's THERE. Otherwise you are not going to bother with the real thing. There's hardly any potential loss for the companies. The music and movie (and porn) industries may be a different story though...it's no secret, that their disc sales are decreasing for a pretty long time.
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1-false, many ppl using torrents have money, just dont wanna spend it on games, when they cannot, for example, pirate a new video card...
2-true
3-true, or just wait
4- true
I mean, seriously, its so godamn easy to pirate games, if it took 1 week to find and install a game, it wouldnt be worth it, but, if you know just a little about what you doin. You can find the game in 20 minutes, then just let your computer download it for like 2 days, then, like 30 minutes of installation.
If it wasnt so easy to get and install pirated games, people wouldnt pirate. We all do an economical calculus, we check the time it takes compared to the price. Of course, piracy wouldnt be a prob if it took too much time and work.
Well I find number 1 to be very true in many instances. I live in Canada where pirating is rampant and before I had disposable income, I pirated games cause it was cheap and easy and I probably woudnt have bought those games. Now with income, I buy the games I want and just leave the ones that arent worth the money. It just becomes easier to go into an EB, buy a game and install it rather than take 8 hours downloading a torrent. It became easier and I find that my collegues, who all use to pirate, do it less frequently now because we have the money to buy the games. 
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