Dude, I really don't care what you do. Is this what you do for fun? Be a dick on the internet? No wonder you're cool with piracy. It's part of your MO.

I've pirated before. I was in high school during the days of Napster. I just grew up.

Says the kid who can't just sit back and let the grownups talk (well, one grownup, anyway) without interjecting with nothing of value to add.

If I had your respect, I'd know I was doing something terribly wrong.

No, I'm arguing it from a moral perspective. You have no right to own a product you did not create, or compensate the creator (or current owner) for. I'm not even taking into account its effect on the actual industry.

Oh maan, I totally struck a nerve when I called you a sperg, huh?

Seriously, you are a dumbass sperg.

Ironically, this is the best counter-argument anyone's posed to this point.

I do, actually. The culture of entitlement that exists within the larger gamer culture diminishes the entire pastime, and all of us involved by association.

What right do you have to use the English language without paying royalties to the person or organization who created it? What right do you have to read Shakespeare without paying for it?

Your library is okay with you checking out works and copying them for your own use later? I'm pretty sure your library would not be okay with that if they knew, what with it being entirely illegal and all, not to mention a blatant violation of the library's agreement with the publishers.

And here you are.

Do you still think I'm "arguing" with you?

Piracy makes you guilty of thought crime?

Why wouldn't I be? I live in a country that protects freedom of speech. You're just as entitled to not listen if it offends you.

So when you no longer have any valid arguments, you just blow off the entire discussion as unimportant, so as to minimize your own sense of failure? Wouldn't it be more noble to just bow out gracefully?

Have you ever actually read through Kotaku's comments? If you honestly don't think "entitlement culture" is a very real thing in the gamer community, then that's because you're too deep in the forest to see the trees.

Argue semantics if you want, but it amounts to the same unjustified moral failing. You took something you had no right to without compensating the actual owner. You can try to justify it any way you like, but it's still objectively wrong.

I'm not arguing in defense of corporations. I'm arguing against participating in an entitlement culture, and then complaining when corporations act entitled. I'm arguing for common sense and common decency. I don't give a rat's ass whether these corporations live or die, or whether people play this or that game. I…

No, piracy happens when people see that situation (incorrectly) as justification for taking something that they did not pay for.