I have to call bullshit on that. People do not download games, then buy them afterwards. I am sure people say that, but how can you possibly believe that? I mean you download a game, you beat it, then you go to the store buy it for 50 dollars and never play it again? Yeah right.

After a person beats a game, chances are they are never going to play it again. So why on earth would they ever buy? They won't, we all know they won't and they never do.

The only exception, is if the game has a multiplayer version and you can't play multiplayer unless you have some code or a registered verson. In which case, their copy right protection actually worked in forcing someone to buy the game in order to play on their servers.

So some copy right protection stuff does actually work. Pirating does not help software or music companies even slightly. How much stuff that you download do you actually buy afterwards? Maybe 5 percent tops.

We all know the excuses people tell themself, so they feel better about stealing.