Well, some people justifies murder so why not?
Whenever I want to try a game I usually pirate it instead of getting a demo because of how easy it is to just go to piratebay and find what you want. I don't know if my actions seems justifiable to others but they are somewhat to me for the reason that I pay for the games I find an interest in. I "tried" Total War, Minecraft, Europa Universalis and Bioshock this way and I've now bought one or several entries in those series including the one I pirated.
I would lie if I said that money had nothing to do with it, and that's probably true for most pirates. If I had more money to spend then I would buy more games without checking them out first. If I was rich I wouldn't pirate at all, except when there's no other way to get my hands on a specific game, and I would try to import the game before taking the pirate route.
I've also pirated games that I already own because my old disc no longer works or because the game has some devilish DRM.
So yes, I'd say piracy can be justifiable but it all depends. When a game isn't available in your region then there's not much else you can do, but if that game becomes available later and you don't pay for it then then you can no longer justify pirating it. A lot of people have pirated Xenoblade because it has yet to be released in America, which is fine. Of course, those that want to support the developers imported the game instead. But now that the game is coming out in America the unavailable card is no longer valid and those that pirated it better buy it, atleast if they didn't find it to be complete crap.
