I would like to say that where it concerns the music industry I actually have less sympathy.  The pirating in that industry had a lot more to do with them failing to move into a viable market before smart individuals figured it out.  In fact I would go so far as to say that the reason piracy is mainstream today is due to them dragging their feet in regards to getting into MP3 download services.  People turned to it because they wanted it and the fact that it was free was secondary for a lot of people.

Piracy would be a negligable minority if not for this early mainstreaming of the affair.  

To be clear that doesn't justify pirating, but it does give me pause before I get all teary eyed over lost music revenue from an industry I still think is way way overpriced. 

Bioshock was released 2007-08-21:

2007-08-31   PC Game ISOs   BioShock 2K Games

Halflife 2 was released 2004-11-16:

2004-11-20   PC Game Dox   Half-Life 2 VALVe *PROPER* *OFFLINE NOSTEAM*

Source: nforce

These are non-nuked releases. So I was out by 3 days for Bioshock. But as I said, Halflife 2 and Bioshock are far from the longest games to be cracked.

Meh what bugs me is when the Anti-piracy software screws up your computer. I had one game like that "Superpower 2".

It's a GREAT game, geo-political simulator... but it has an anti-piracy program on it that slows down and screws up you CD burner, which you know has plenty of legal applications. Apparently causes all sorts of other problems too.

I own it and i'd consider downloading the pirated version just so i wouldn't have the malware copy protection on my new computer!

 Fortunatly most anti-piracy progams they use now are way better. In fact you don't notice they're running anymore.

Trackmania is Starforce protected. First version was screwing everyone's PC but now with Trackmania United there is no issue with anyone.

Btw: didn't mention that Trackmania United is very good, try the free game nation to check it out.

 While I'd look the other way if someone at the poverty line downloaded games...it's still stealing, and just because you're poor doesn't give you the right to steal.  I can't afford a new PC game all the time...there's games I want to play, but can't buy because I have other financial priorities.  That doesn't mean I download the game...that means I save money and wait til later.  

Trackmania's pretty sweet...are the games that cost money that much better? The game frustrated me, but in a good way.

 If you lived below the poverty line, you shouldn't reallybe buying computers capable of running all of the latest games. Gaming shouldn't be your priority.

CoD4 made so much money on the consoles its crazy, so they don't deserve to complain. Their PS3 version is also so screwy its insane, ever since the last server update the amount of people complaining on their sites has more then doubled. The PS3 version has also suffered from so many bugs it is crazy.

But since the last server update the amount of lag has doubled even on games where everyone has perfect pings, the lag is also affecting the better players more, there are reports of people going from 3+ kill death ratio to under 2.5 in the last week. The noobs also seem to have an increase in their hit detection boxes where they are getting kills on non moving targets when they are not even aiming at them.

The week before the update i was averaging a kill death ratio of over 5 and now my K/D is averaging 1.5. A one burst shot to the chest with an M16 is what is needed to kill a guy, but now its taking over 5 burst shots to get a kill, players are also getting knife kills across the room, you can see this on the killcams.

To the people complaining about piracy i want to know if you have ever downloaded any music off the net or any other files that are not free.

 amen. If we could get anything we wanted for free, there would be no one left working to get money and no one left to make new stuff (no new video games o_O) and we'd all be screwed. you gotta work for the sweet stuff in life.