Is it piracy if ......?

[Reasonable]

Words Of Wisdom said:

Pyro as Bill said:

1. If you download a game that you are really looking forward to that is available now in another region but you have to wait weeks or more in your own region. You have already preordered the game and intend to pay for it.

2. Same as above but you have actually paid for your pre-order before the game is released.

3. The game is released and you've snagged a great online bargain but will take 1 week to arrive, you can't wait a week and so download it.

_{(Wii Sports Resort is awesome!! )}

Game piracy is the act of illegally obtaining a copy of a game so it doesn't even matter if you pay for it or even if you play it.

I'm surprised so many people in this thread fail to realize this.

Oh I don't know, most seem to be splitting this into two elements, legal and moral (myself included!).

Morally if you've bought something you've bought it (assuming the OP isn't lying about that).  Morally it's a bit shaky getting another copy via a potentially illegal route, as you're arguably encouraging the supply of the illegal copy.  Legally, you're acting illegally (depending upon where you are geographically of course).

Personally, while I am absolutely anti-piracy, I can also recognize that various international processes, corporate decisions, etc. lag way behind the reality of content purchase in a digital age, and understand that all sorts of 'grey areas' are going to exist until things catch up.