Music, Movies and Games are so easy to download from the internet these days. Why pay for something that can be free?

Pirated copies of PC games have in fact worked better than the retail copies of PC games. I hate having to register PC games online. Pay for a game and only be able to install it on PC 3 times is stupid.

I support the gaming industry by buying games. I get money from working at this thing called a job. This is how the world works. Pirating is a nice word for stealing. I am not a thief and would never care to be. I don't want to here all of this I can't afford everything I want crap. I wish that I had both a Ferrari and a Rolls Royce but I can't afford either. I don't just go and take them. I realize that pirating a game isn't on the same level as that but it's the same act. It's the act of stealing.

Piracy will increase due to the recession. PC and all the hand helds and consoles can be pirated. It is surprising DS and PSP games are still high priced their prices should be much lower and people may buy more portable games instead of pirating them. Only PS3 is pirate free and may be a reason why it has not sold as much in poorer regions which bought PS2, PS3s predecessor which was easy to play pirate games on.
It would cost too much money to police the entire world and fully eliminate piracy of all media forms be it music, video games, movies, etc.
Piracy is stealing but it is doing it through a non violent process downloading it from the internet instead of physically stealing the product.

T.....Twesterm hasn't posted here yet?

What?

Also, how many of these threads are we going to have? :P

I believe gaming, not reflecting the stagnancy of Music and Movie industries still deserves my bucks, and that money will continue to push boundaries. Everyone else is fair game. TPB problems? Follow the skulls!

 No idea!  :)

So since no one's getting physically beaten up it is perfectly alright?  Also you're blaming the PS3's lower sales on the fact that it's piracy free?  Whaaaaaat??????  It's like saying I had sex with a hooker behind my wife's back instead of having an actual relationship behind her back so it makes it not as bad.  Cheating is cheating and stealing is stealing. By the way, I'm not married, but still...  

i have never and prob will never buy a pc game but i get every new game out there. On consoles i have never done it but i know that piracy is a console selling feature, if it cant be hacked it wont sell much

no is not stiealing 

Piracy, whatever it is, is not stealing. You are making a mistake of treating information with the same kind of moral metrics that we traditionally use for material objects.

Consider these facts about the proposition: A steals X from B:

* A no longer owns X
* X is no longer owned by A.
* B now owns X

Now consider the facts about the proposition: A copies X from B without A’s consent.

* A continues to own X
* X is owned by A
* X is owned by B
* B continues to own X

These relationships can be expressed in many different ways, what is inescapable about them is the unauthorized copying is not stealing.

The closest you can come to equating copying with stealing is if you speak not of the thing copied but of the "act of purchase". That is, that what is being deprived from B is A's act of purchase. But this in itself is a nonsense because it assumed that A would in all cases have purchased x from B.

People who copy information, like people who gossip (the analogy of passing on “unauthorized” information here is intentional), are not thieves. They may not be as morally wholesome as saints but they only commit he crime of theft in your antiquated and mistaken view of the ontology of information. Information is not an object.