Holy fucking shit it's like talking to a brick wall. These people are seemingly incapable of understanding who "pirates" and why they "pirate". I keep trying to explain that if I were to make a game, I wouldn't give a damn if people pirate because I just want people to enjoy the game. If people can afford it, cool, share among your friends!
I swear to god these nerds can't understand the corpo isn't "losing revenue" when someone pirates. They either weren't going to buy the game anyway or someone is just trying it out...
These people are just corpo bootlickers 
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Really depends where you live. Back where mu family is from in the global South, it's pretty normal because no one can afford luxury entertainment items, but in the global north there is that kind of "consumerist snobbery" as AssortedBiscuits called it. It's getting less common every day now as things get more expensive.
I think, too, it’s an indoctrination by the corpos and media that piracy is highly illegal and that you can get arrested for it. Some people I talked to see it like stealing from a store.
Tbf you actually get legally persecuted for piracy in several global north countries.