Can we ban confessed pirates and modders?

[Melistrius]

So after all who decides what is good and what is bad? You already editet the OP to include that modding for imports are okay. Why do we have region locks you think? Why are they against importing? I mean where to draw the line? Is your pirating definition to download and sell it? Or are you really such an angel that NEVER EVER have downloaded something you're intended to pay for? Piracy is not good by any means and i can't defend it but I do it too. Just for me. I'm not giving it to my friend, I'm not even showing it to them and I'm not selling it either. I live far under poverty line with what i have per month and I'm happy if I can get 4 Games for my consoles per year (alltough they are all presents or 2nd hand, look at my Game collection. Looks much but I haven't paid more than 10-20 for each, until that price I had to wait or get lucky on my birthday...) and hell yes sometimes I want to play a game on my old PC... And yea, luckily it's old so I can only pirate old Games. So the question for me is to try out a game (And buy it sometime cheap if it's really worth it and I can find it on Ebay) or go play the same games over and over again what bores me. But anyway I don't support piracy to anyone I know and hell yes I feel guilty... And hell yes I feel bad because my book, my intelectual work can be found for free as E-Book and I don't get a goddamn Penny for it. But for real... there are people who don't want to pay for stuff, who can't pay for stuff and who wants to get paid for stuff. And there will always be. Before I had Internet there were guys at school selling cdroms of games for 10, selling music cds for 5 and big pc compilations with 50+ games for 50... Today I would never support anything like this but back in the day I sure did... I wanted to know what everyone was talking about... My most played PC Game is still AvP2 that I bought 2 times after my first copy broke. Since then I barely bought a game since money was always tight and nothing seemed worth it. And I downloaded about 1 Game a month. So where to draw the line? NOONE really knows how big the impact on the industry is... They claim every pirated thing as sell and that is just not true. But they miss the opposite... There ARE things that sell better through piracy... Because people can judge for themselves. Money is short and it always was and games are still some luxury. And there will always be people who "steal". They're not good nor heroes but they are people and you don't know their reasons. Do you know they really can play Crisis on their PC and haven't just downloaded it to test if it works and then erased i because it didn't? And don't come with the argument with demos because they're almost euqal as big and so I understand why not check the final product... Well i didn't because I know my PC can't handle it and I'm not that big FPS Fan, just happy that Enemy territory is running and 4 free ^^ Spreading piracy = ban but saying: I pirated games for whatever reason a ban? Making people be afraid to say the truth? Wanna prison some Jews? It's a sad day for real. But come on, hate me for what I have done... ban me if you can and want... I have to live with it. But don't put everyone under the same knife. And after all you shouldn't have blank CDs and DVDs because you CAN do bad stuff with it...