But by taking up space, you are taking up a resource that could be used elsewhere. It more like using a different lower cost method to get to your destination instead of buying a plane ticket. Pirated software is a rival good. A very good rival good since the product is at least as good, and at a far better price.

Intellectual property is a joke. Your ideas belong not only to you but the world and society that helped create you. Without them you wouldn't live let alone be able to file some silly patent and make your life better at the expense of others.

In the case of Carmack vs the company the property clearly doesn't belong to anyone who just downloads it or copies it.  I won't deny that laws have flaws but that doesn't mean that I would think it's right for someone to download something that someone created just because they don't feel like paying for it.  Maybe they don't have the money for it.  Maybe it's way to expensive there.  Those are things that could be addressed but I do feel that the artits creaters and studios do deserev to get paid for what they make.  Just because it's something that can be so easily coppied in many cases doesn't make it right to. 

I have a psp I think there would be many more good games on it if people didn't pirate the ones that are there so much.  So I as a consumer loose out because so many out there feel it's ok for whatever reason not to pay for it.  Sony very well might have sold fewer if it wasn't so easy to pirate but then again they might have sold more if more good games were made for it and people were to buy the psp to play the games. 

By no means are the laws flawless but at what point does one draw the line between it's ok to download it for nothing vs paying for it?  I can understand why many do it.  Sometimes the prices can be crazy especially in the smaller markets, but when some come up with "well I wouldn't have bought it anyway " as an excuse to steal bugs me.  If you were interested in it enough to download it  why not check rewies ask your friends try and rent it or a demo,  wait to see if the price drops or if you can find it used.  But to blatently say never means you probably shouldn't be playing it in the first place.

I won't post my thoughts on piracy because everyone on this site knows them. I just think that those stalwart anti-piracy defenders might wanna try to live some years in a third-world country. Let's see how much you oppose piracy when what you earn isn't enough to buy a single original game

You cannot steal what does not exist. The copy of the game that a "pirate" gets does not exist until he/she creates it. As such no one has lost anything tangible at all. You can say it lost a potential sale, but that is not even close to something tangible. There for it is inaccurate and wrong to attempt to label "pirates" as thieves. Criminals, sure. But we don't call murderers thieves because they "stole" a life. Words have set meanings for a reason, and for that reason you cannot call copyright infringement theft.

I can't afford a Ferrari and want one so what should I do? 

This doesn't make much sense to me. Surely there are things you wont try on your own dollar? Now how many of those things would you try for free? I tried carrot cake flavored ice cream today for the first time and ended up buying a pint all because someone asked if i would like to sample it.

Work in the GameDB until you can afford one?

Well if you can manage a free one, while not taking some one else's car then I suggest you do it! If you could in fact pull a farrari out of thin air, you certainly would not need to buy one anymore, but its silly to say you stole something that would not have exisited had it not been for your own efforts.

This is to all of you who make the same illogical arguement.

You're still stealing the profit that could be earned. If you want to try the game out, play the demo. If you really want to play the full game

1. buy it new

2. buy it used from ebay for far less

3. get an account from one of those online renters

Basically, any time you gain a copy you did not some how pay for, you are stealing from the people who created it. There is no way around that simple fact.

If your logic held true, you could take that 60" HDTV, since you wouldn't have bought it anyways.