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It's wrong. You can't justify it because it's illegal, people worked hard on the game and you're stealing it.
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Except you're not stealing. And saying you can't justify something because it's illegal is silly, there are tonnes of bullshit laws nowadays.
I pirated a bunch of shit. AO, AE (Of course, I'd already bought the games twice before then and one since), Silent Hill 4... Pirating from indie companies is pretty bad, but unusually most of the companies I've seen discuss the topic aren't really that bothered, they're just happy that people are playing the games.
Thinking about it, those three up there are the only games I've ever pirated, not because it's 'morally wrong' but just because I've never really had to. I think if it's under a tenner I'll just save up to buy it and if it's over a tenner then it's probably a big game, so pirating it would be pointless because I wouldn't be able to play it on my shitty PC. Most pirated games fuck up at some point, in my experience at least.
Oh yeah, Portal, before I bought that (twice) I pirated it from a friends PC and stuck it on my laptop because I had no internet at the time. It ran like shit.
Silent Hill 4 was alright but I didn't enjoy the game so I uninstalled it.
Old games like that aren't in production anymore so even if you did buy it the original development team wouldn't be getting any money.
I wouldn't pirate indie games just in the same way that I wouldn't pirate indie music (I actually do sometimes but I still feel guilty about it).