I think that the software I personally have pirated doesn't take out of any corps. pockets, cause if it wasn't there to pirate I simply would have never ever used it...I have bought 4 games in my life and every single one of them, I pirated first. The rest, well, they weren't worth the box they'de come in.
I don't have money to go around buying every new game that comes out. (Currently, I don't have the system to play them)
But I will be damned if I am not gonna sample the full version of a game before I shell out $50! That's a lot of money for me! I'm broke goin through school...
Anyways, this thread kind of reminds me of this little jewel: