You rather the A-Lum-In-um version? rather than it spoken like condominium? I'm fairly easy going on different region spellings because I move around a bit, I'm from Ireland but honestly I think the British butchering of it is lovely in ways, I mean...they invented it so I love hearing them kill it. Hearing the days of the week spoken as Mun-di and Son-Di really opens a persons eyes asto how much a language can take before it breaks.

There's nearly no way to excuse piracy in the vast majority of the cases ...

Pricing ? Discounts happens just about every time and getting media from second hand sources is also option too ...
Appreciation ? Content creators would actually feel like it if they were getting paid for it instead of facing layoffs ...
Fighting greed ? Maybe pirates should take a look at themselves in their own mirror ...

Piracy and digital media are the reasons why most artists today can't make a fucking buck for a living ...

legit what % of layoffs happen because someone pirates a copy of some indie game which was gotten on GOG in comparison to Activision wanting to please shareholders so they offed I forget how many hundred of their staff, EA and Bioware can't be feeling too safe right now either with Anthem going completely tits up but again... Anthems issues are 0% related to piracy but it will likely see a lot of people looking for work in the not too distant future.

If you have a means to legally purchase it, then yes. Otherwise it's a case of shitty piracy.

I own Scott Pilgrim as well. However, if my friend were to decide he wanted to play it, he could not purchase it.

Not any more than there is any other god out there telling you not to do bad things and rewarding you with an afterlife. See, the thing is you don't need a deity to have a moral compass. It's one thing if you're not given the option to purchase the title anymore, such as with Alan Wake. It's quite another to use a Wii U emulator just to play Breath of the Wild without paying for it. But if you don't have a problem personally with being a bad person, then all you have to do is keep your VPN up so your ISP can't sell you out for piracy.

I agree with the points made in the OP, and I guess it's hard for a lot of people to *truly* understand.

The developer of Minecraft back in 2011/2012 was perfectly fine with it

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/01/12/minecraft-creator-notch-tells-players-to-pirate-his-game/

"Piracy is not theft," he said. "If you steal a car, the original is lost. If you copy a game, there are simply more of them in the world. There is no such thing as a 'lost sale'. Is a bad review a lost sale? What about a missed ship date?"

I mean... what would he know about economics, it's not like he is a billionaire now.... oh wait.

Personally I pirated MC on the pc originally, then bought it for the PS3/Vita, upgraded that version for the ps4 and I got the Switch version of it as well later on. Piracy showed me that game was good and the devs feelings regarding piracy made me feel happy to chuck him the price of the game a few times down the line.

Pirating games that are near impossible to play is fine. There's this one Genesis RPG that's like Zelda that's never been re-released and hard copies for the console are unreasonably priced. I don't see the harm in not paying for abandonware.

Gamecube games too. I mean, what am I gonna do, spend 200 quid on a used Path of Radiance disk with no box or play the rom on the objectively superior emulator?

lol I did that xD

I don't pirate because;

A - I have a job.

B - Not having funds isn't an excuse for stealing, neither is having the inability to access said video game. That's not the company's fault - it's yours. 

C - Video games are a privilege, not a right

D - 99% of gamers don't realize that buying a video game that you enjoy helps the developers/publishers who used time & resources to make that game. People with families to feed and jobs to keep made that game. Try inventing something that costs tens of millions of dollars to create, then see how you like it when someone pirates your shit. 

And get outta here with your cherry picked example of one dude and one paragraph. Does he speak for the entire games industry? Or better yet, the entire entertainment industry that's also affected by piracy

I didn't think so...

Piracy doesn't need defending. It has its benefits no matter what people say about it and it's not like there could be any universe where piracy is not a thing.

I'll just sit back and laugh at big media companies which are actually driving piracy in their futile attempts to stop it.

I’m actually thinking about pirating Anno 1800, since the publisher makes it near impossible to actually own that game. Would be a first in decades, but there it is.