Firstly, Piracy is not theft. If I had a magic beam that copied somebody's car and made a copy of a sports car would that be me 'stealing' one? No. It would be me acquiring one without paying, but nobody would go deprived of a sports car because of me.
Secondly, using the 'stealing money from poor starving programmers/artists' doesn't really work in the music industry (because musicians get payed shit for royalties) and doesn't work at all for the video game industry. Most of the time there are NO royalties for video game developers, who usually don't see another cent once the game goes gold.
Note: I've never pirated a console game, because that usually requires modchipping/hacking the system, and therefore it's easier to just buy the damn game. However, I've bought I think 3 CDs in the last 6 years, and that's solely because they were CDs I couldn't find anywhere on the net. Also, I've found that when I pirate PC games, it's usually because I've heard good things about them and after installing them I find out they're quite bad and play for less than an hour and then uninstall. And no, I'm not going to pay 50$ for that.
Ninja Edit: When you pirate a game that is no longer in print, you're not taking any money from the publisher, just from seedy stores like gamestop that make a living buying used games for 5$ and reselling them for 45$.
Wii has more 20 million sellers than PS3 has 5 million sellers.
Acolyte of Disruption
