-Why I Pirate- Is piracy justifiable?

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OK, ill admit back when I was younger, and didn't have a source of income I did download a few games through not so legal methods. Ever since I've had money coming in though, all that has changed. I've bought the games I pirated through Steam (I love steam) and have bought even more games. Despite knowing that I won't play them, I felt obliged to give the developers money for a game I previously enjoyed without spending anything for it. I guess you could say my conscious played part in it. I haven't pirated anything as of recent. Actually bought a few games at full price, even though some of them I regretted buying. (Example: Rage). Would of rather not played it at all than pay 60 dollars for it. Considering just 2 months later it went on sale for 15. Game is worth 15 dollars, just not the 60 I paid for it. Guess that is what I get for trusting Id to release a good game. I don't know if I would say pirating is justifiable, but it is most defiantly not a lost sale. Most people who pirate wouldn't of bought the game anyways, don't have the money to buy it, or downloaded it just to increase the leech number to troll idiotic publishers. Considering most publishers say that each Torrent of their game downloaded is a lost sale, that is idiotic, and untrue. Take what I said above in consideration, then listen to this. There are people that download GAMES THEY BOUGHT through torrents. I have a legal purchased CD key for Call of Duty 4. My disc worked on other computers, but for mine it simply would not install right. So I downloaded the file through a torrent website and used my legal CD-Key and played Multiplayer. I've done this through other games too. Some that I've bought on steam, that I didn't want steam integration with due to singleplayer launch issues when my internet is down. There are other cases of people who have Skyrim and didn't want steam to mess their stuff up, so they downloaded the torrent of it. Publishers fail to realize, that the number of leechers don't amount to the number of lost sales. Considering some of the people they might try to take legal action on actually own a license to their game.