These stats are complete garbage. This assumes that if piracy wasn't an option all the people who pirated the games would have purchased them which is crazy.
Lets compare that with stealing for example. I guess during the Rodney King riots when people were breaking into electronic stores and stealing tv's they had already planned to purchase that tv that day but considering there was a riot going on they decided to take that tv for free and I guess transfered the money in their tv budget line over to a different purpose.
The fact is that people who pirate their games end up downloaded loads of games because they are free. Many people also pirate a game to check it out and see if it's worth buying when demo's aren't made available.
Piracy is hurting tv shows and movies a lot more than games.
