Reasonable said:
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.
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Actually the suppy of pirated copies of a game is pretty much perfectly elastic. What this means is that practically unlimited suppy is available at 0 dollars for a newly released game and no matter how many copies you would want, there are always more available. You could litterally spawn 1,000,000 copies of Pac Man on your computer if you wanted to and another 4,000,000 copies of Mrs Pac Man in case he got lonely and became a Mormon at the same time.
Tease.
