I agree with piracy most of the time, because I'm too poor to pay full price for entertainment. Some examples:
1.) I already pay $80 a month for 250GB of 150Mb down, 15Mb up Internet, so I'm
technically paying for what I download.
2.) I use Popcorn Time instead of Netflix (It's free, with 50,000,000,000 times more content).
3.) I can never pay full price for games, I'll either wait for a good Steam sale, download free 3DS games off FreeShop, or buy cheap Steam keys from G2A.
4.) Sometimes I can't find a legit game key because it's been removed from Steam permanently, so piracy is the only answer, as seen by this list here:
http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3071895
5.) Portable versions of major apps like Photoshop, WPS Office 2016, etc are better than their bloated, static installation counterparts; They load faster (Especially from SSD and RAMdisk), are usually a lot more compressed to take up less space, have everything they need to run (runtimes, java, etc) self-contained, and can be run from just about any folder or drive you desire, even USB drives... All without making many (or any) changes to your PC.
6.) It's more convenient to have all your games on a memorycard (PSP) or a single flash cart (NDS/3DS/GB/GBC/GBA, etc) than to drag around all your original carts, and saves you excessive wear to the cart slot/UMD drive.
7.) Some games don't have Demos, or the demos are too short to get a real taste of a game.
8.) Sometimes software apps won't give you a full version trial, so you pirate the full version for a while before committing to a license purchase.
9.) Sometimes a license purchase wants a yearly subscription (which is bullshit and we all know it). Here's looking at you, Anti-virus companies and WPS Office!
10.) Sometimes a dev will suddenly turn greedy and want money for something that was once free, and paywall you into a forced donation to get the new version. (SARDU, PartedMagic, Napster, the list goes on.) I refuse to do that. Hell, Parted Magic wants a $10 "donation" for every new version! Fucking absurd!!!
11.) Game repacks often shave off MANY gigabytes of bloat from games, giving you just what the game needs to run.
