The game still had a currency to you; hard drive space. There's a concept in marketing that explains every object in this world has a value to someone. The value doesn't necessarily have to be money. Maybe its time, or energy, or in this case, space on a hard drive that isn't infinite.

It's poorly founded, because it's comparing the ways in which to measure both iPhone and PC pirate percentages, and yet only gives a reason as to why PC games are pirated. It's a wholly unique reason and doesn't address why the iPhone games are pirated, and it never addresses then why console games get pirated or how it correlates to the percentage of pirates over different platforms. Overall very poorly done, and an obvious plug for their product. I understand you have an agenda to fulfill here, but step back and look at this bunk. It's just sloppy, half done field work and the two segments of the article don't fit well together at all by themselves.

You are logic is even more retarded the moment you equated digital goods to physical goods.

when buying a game you at least pay the actual "workers" like 50% of your price.

When I give you my jeans, can I use my jeans still? There's your value.

i am not saying there is NO difference, but the majority of your money goes to pretty much the same recipients, with a "slightly" different distribution.

When I give you my jeans, can I use my jeans still? There's your value.

A good example with physical goods like clothing is knockoff merchandise/imitation goods. It's a big problem in large, urban US cities. There's lost value for the real manufacturer in the ability for consumers to acquire a fake NFL jersey from a black market dealer for $10-20 instead of the $60-80 it costs to buy a legal, officially licensed one. Women's purses/bags are also popular knockoff items.

That is also a wrong analogy. Because the pirated versions are far superior than the retail version in this day and age. By quality, the guys on the street would be selling a far better pair of jeans than the guys in the businesses.

Your last comment is utter BS. I have seen many street vendors who sell t-shirts that are 3 for 10 and they are super thin which means they won't keep you very warm I have a t-shirt i got from Kohl's more than 2 years ago and i have worn it at least ONCE a week since i bought it which is equivalent to 208+ weeks. The funny thing is that when i got the shirt I only paid 3$ since it was on their 90% off clearance rack.  Also me + my family have gotten more sick from street vendor food than from any brick and mortar business.