Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?

[Napoléon]

You don't believe in intellectual property. Great. Go read a book.

Don't tell me what I do and do not believe in pal. Piracy is a whole other issue to stealing as you talk about it. My beef with people who see piracy as an equivalence to stealing is that it just isn't in any traditional sense. There's numerous studies that show piracy has very little impact on actual sales and even a few that show it can be positive. The assumption that people like you seem to have is that everyone who pirates would necessarily otherwise buy the game. For one that's simply not true, and for another there's nothing stopping them from purchasing said game even after pirating.


I personally don't consider piracy "stealing" as you call it because nothing is actually lost and in many cases something is actually gained from a game being pirated (just look at Minecraft's history). Everyone loves to equate piracy with stealing candy from a store when it just isn't the same damn thing.

So as for your petty and childish "go read a book" comment, I'd tell you to do some research on the topic yourself.