Popinjay37

First I didn't argue that it was morally justifiable, only that software companies often engage in unethical behavior that nobody seems to comment on and that this behavior results in more piracy. Second, piracy is not theft it is copyright infringement. In a theft if a person has a piece of property stolen from her/him then that person doesn't have it any longer. In copyright violation nobody loses the item, but additional people have it without paying the right holder.&n

He/she gave a really good reason to justify what he or she did. He/she waits until a game is working until she/he buys it. It seems to me that it is much less ethical to release a game you know is so buggy it doesn't work while knowing people are not allowed to return it to the stores they purchase it from (due to special laws that the industry itself lobbied for) than it is to pirate the game until you are sure that it works. I'm not