Do You Know Someone Who Pirates Games?

In all seriousness I think everyone knows someone who pirates games. I used to do it a lot but know I use Steam.

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/when-pirates-outnumber-paying-customers-10-to-1-games-die-very-quickly

A case of piracy actually killing a game, and hurting a small company.

I used to. I'm with you. It is inexcusable to pirate games today. Back in the early 2000s when I used to do it there really was no good service to buy, manage, download, and play video games(or music and movies for that matter). Now a days there are TONS of affordable places to get that content. There used to be a sort of robin hood style "justice" to internet pirates. Because music and movie studios used to charge insanely high prices for the content. But now, it is just being greedy.

Used to when I was a teenager. When I got more involved in the game communities I changed my ways. Reading dev blogs, and hearing from their mouths the work they put it makes me want to pay them for their services. Having said that I have one friend who still pirates.

I have plenty of friends who pirate games. Some of them wants to "try before buy" and some just pirate every game they come across and rarely pays for them.