I really would love to know where those numbers come from, I mean there is massive difficulty in tracking the sales numbers of games from digital sources like steam/origin but are you trying to suggest that someone has created a method for perfectly tracking each unique download from all of the torrent sites or each time someone shares files with their friends/family for games which never go online, I would love to know the technology behind tracking file sharing like that.

Sometime pirating is done because access to the content is not available. For instance persons living in remote countries or areas will not see an official release of the content therefore pirating is an option. Some places offer the option to pay and download the content but not everyone has access to credit cards or some of these sites do not accept credit cards from certain countries.

But it is against the law

These where the numbers of downloads on one click hosters up to 2013, which tended to have download counters. So no, torrent downloads and other sources are not even included in these numbers.

So clicks on a direct download link of a 30+gb file for the witcher = game pirated and fully downloaded by a unique user? Even those who might click it on mobile broadband or click it before noticing that their net would take an eternity to download a file that large? By this same "Click=unique person" logic 2.4billion unique people have watched Gangnam style on youtube, see how that doesn't work?

No, the download is not an authorized copy.

(11) the making imperceptible, by or at the direction of a member of a private household, of limited portions of audio or video content of a motion picture, during a performance in or transmitted to that household for private home viewing, from an authorized copy of the motion picture, or the creation or provision of a computer program or other technology that enables such making imperceptible and that is designed and marketed to be used, at the direction of a member of a private household, for such making imperceptible, if no fixed copy of the altered version of the motion picture is created by such computer program or other technology.

You are allowed to make copy for yourself from Netflix, yet why bother. I use ps3youtube to predownload content since my internet isn't always stable. Which is fine except that a lot of content on you tube are not authorized copies. Yet as you said, it's often the only way to get certain old content or certain anime movies. And some might be available but locked in a different region code, if not long gone out of print.

The movie industry went the right way by providing digital copies for travel with most blu-ray releases. Yet why do they still stick to region codes? It doesn't make sense. As for tv shows, I'll stick to Netflix. I don't have time to watch that much anyway.
I watched Breaking bad partly on Netflix to catch up and the rest recorded from TV. $200 for the blu-ray version is just too much (it's $160 now still way too much), yet they could have made some money off me at a reasonable price. I stopped buying series after Battlestar Galactica started selling half seasons...

Mr.Playstation said: As a 16 year old broke kid. I do pirate a lot. Apart from hardware I've never bought any original software. All of my consoles are cracked and I even bought some cracked from the store . I've been very lucky to be able to pirate a ton of games throughout my whole life. I've been able to play multiple games from platforming, shooters, RPG's and so on. I've been able to download any game my heart desires ( If I had the hardware to play it on obviously ) and although I didn't finish all of them, I've found a couple of gems which I wouldn't even have considered If I was paying out of my wallet. Getting a PS4 would mean that I would have to stop pirating ( Mainly since it's very hard to actually crack a PS4 and their may be online restrictions after cracking the console ) and just buy fewer games which I already know that I'm going to enjoy. TL;DR: Pirating helps you branch out in terms of gaming since their's no financial risk. So pirating is actually pretty awesome to help see what games genres you like .

Getting a pirates game isn't luck. It's cheating the system. There no luck in cheating a system, it's premeditated. It's giving these companies more of a reason to drop drm on our heads in the future. Sooner or later we will own nothing .  Once it all goes digital they will own it all.

True, but those vids are just streamed, so you'll have to reclick to rewatch the video over and over. A downloaded copy of some game doen't need to get redownloaded each time you want to start the game. Still, there are surely some who downloaded it more than once, so the downloads would be lower than that. But like I said, these are just the numbers from one click hosters. If you add other means to download the games like torrent you will certainly surpass those numbers with relative ease

I don't hate people who pirate, but I stopped pirating games myself years ago. I like to provide income for developers who make good games, and I especially like it when I can purchase a game like The Witcher 3 on the store run by the developer, enabling them to receive 100% of the income and not share with others.
I can afford the games I want and there are plenty of sales, I don't really have any reason to pirate games any longer, there are always issues after patches, no support, problems with expansions and drivers, mods and other things.
For me; it's worth paying for my games.

New question. Is it piracy to copy nfc codes?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-08-18-unauthorised-amiibo-device-tricks-wii-u-with-data-for-any-figurine

Amiibo owners will soon be able to back up their figurine's data via an unofficial device, the amiiqo.

This feature is useful as each figure is only able to write data for one game at a time (although the toys can be identified by any number of games that just require read-only access).

That's the 'official' use for the amiiqo, but the peripheral also has another function - it can download figure data from others via the internet.

Is this stealing DLC like a DLC code generator?

Is it really such a small percentage of people whenever the number of illegal downloads exceeds the number of actual sales? I agree that not every pirated copy = lost sale, but to minimize it is deceitful. It's spin to make pirates feel better.