Videogames piracy - Why so much hate?

[Napoléon]

Well, I read all 3 of them, I still think it's ridiculous, because it justifies it by by calling it a non-theft and makes it less offensive.

No, that's not what justifies it. You obviously don't understand the point that each of those articles made.

The thing is, you cannot exclude video games from the rest of the digital content and give them special privilege.

We're talking about video game piracy. I'm only talking about the thread topic. Video games are different to many other media online in many aspects, and as such I do think they deserve different consideration. IP laws are too simplistic in how they deal with the different industries and different content that can be downloaded online. People's (such as yourself) opinions on piracy are also too simplistic IMHO. They say "you're taking something that doesn't belong to you", when by definition that's not even the case with piracy. Taking something means removing something. In all cases of piracy, nothing is actually lost. Why is this such a difficult concept to understand? Do you honestly not see how this makes it totally different from other cases of "stealing"?

It annoys me to no end when people say "piracy is just the same as going into a store, picking up a game and walking out with it". No it fucking isn't! It's totally not the fucking same.

No sale lost is a silly argument when someone is using a pirated copy of Auto Cad, for example in their architectural studio and charging clients for it or someone selling pirated copies of games and movies, it happens a LOT, lot more then you would think

Now you're talking about something totally different. What you're talking about is the resale of pirated products. In such a case, yeah, that is wrong. That is where IP laws make sense. That's where you really are ripping someone off. But that's a whole other discussion, and actually, unless you're gonna back up that 'happens a lot' statement with fact, I'm not inclined to believe it happens enough to actually affect sales in any considerable way.