It's simple. More game piracy = less risk-taking in game development, more BS copy protection schemes, and oftentimes publishers abandoning a piracy-prone system altogether (see: PSP). If you love good games, you should not pirate good games.
I've pirated music before, but artists barely make a few cents off of an album sale anyway - and there will always be music, piracy or no. I've pirated TV shows, but most TV shows are available for free (legally) somewhere on the 'net in any case. Game piracy is an evil unto itself, and not comparable to anything else.
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
-Sean Malstrom
