Can piracy be a good thing?

[IllegalPaladin]

Millennium said:

nitekrawler1285 said:

I'm just curious to how places like Gamefly and Blockbuster can charge you and give away someone's intellectual property but doing so for free is bad.

Because Gamefly and Blockbuster legitimately purchase every copy they rent out, and don't make new ones. They don't steal in the way that pirates do.

 

So do the people who get and crack the games they put on the internet, but they don't charge you to play that game.