I do something that most people call very close to pirating(but I don't mind at all): PS3 Gamesharing with a close friend. In this sense, my friend has pirated around 60-70 PS3 and PSP games(including TDP).
I do something that most people call very close to pirating(but I don't mind at all): PS3 Gamesharing with a close friend. In this sense, my friend has pirated around 60-70 PS3 and PSP games(including TDP).
To be honest, thats not much worse than lending someone a game/DVD, or inviting them round to watch a film together. It's when you start sharing with more than a couple friends that it becomes an issue.
To be honest, thats not much worse than lending someone a game/DVD, or inviting them round to watch a film together. It's when you start sharing with more than a couple friends that it becomes an issue.
Well, no other friend I have owns a PS3, and I wouldn't trust some of my other PSP-owning friends with my account.
I also once put music on my computer another way: I just got the CD from the library, put it in my computer, and ripped the CD so I could keep the files. That has no possibility at being illegal.
To be honest, thats not much worse than lending someone a game/DVD, or inviting them round to watch a film together. It's when you start sharing with more than a couple friends that it becomes an issue.
This is a little scary.
So, there's this book series I'm desperately in love with called The Prince of Nothing (Check it out). I bought copies of the books. I figured some friends would like it, so I loaned them my books. Due to the first-sale doctrine this is 100% legal.
In the post I quoted, the things I bolded are all 100% legal. In fact, you can share a thing with as many people as you want *as long as you don't make any copies*
Many people put music up on Youtube. Even artists put up their own songs on Youtube (VEVO, much?). I'm pretty sure if it was illegal there would be a very small abundance of them.
It is illegal youtube videos get removed all the time for copyright infringement.... Heck all the videos that people around here put up of TTG games is an infringement if TTG wanted to they could get them removed... and send you a +10 letter of discouragement...
Copyright is an interesting thing. You can't make the blanket statement that putting up music on youtube is illegal. For example, if a musician chooses to use any of the Creative Commons licenses on their work then you can upload it to youtube all you want- so long as you attribute the original creator (and possibly meet some other standards; Read up on the licenses for more details).
Due to the concept of Fair Use, you can even use copyrighted material with zero permission whatsoever as long as you make a significant change or addition to the original material; For example, parody is explicitly allowed in all circumstances. Other things are less clear; A lot of youtube videos get into hazy legal ground.
Unfortunately, due to our legal system, unclear definition of copyright, lobbying by the industry, and general public misconceptions (like the ones I quoted), we've hit a point where tons of people think that fair use and sharing are all explicitly disallowed and illegal. Some things are, to be sure; blatant piracy of standard copyrighted material is illegal. But that doesn't mean that every time you loan a friend a game or listen to a burned CD in your car you're breaking the law.
I haven't gone to the theatre in years because of the price. It's often cheaper to buy the DVD, even new, and you can watch it more than once and/or resell it afterwards.
Not an excuse to download it illegally in my opinion, though.
I agrre with you on this one. Especially since the DVD releases are pretty fast nowadays. Some years ago you had to wait a lot longer for the VHS or DVD release of a movie. There is just no sense in going to a theatre any more.
I tried it in the past and it just made me realise how much I hate having people around me that are talking, eating etc. while I am trying to watch the movie.
And on DVD I can watch the english versions of the movie any time I want and not only in certain screenings.
I go to midnight showings quite a bit, but that turns the movie into an experience rather than just a movie; Nothing like seeing tons of crazy people dressed up and super excited about something
I go to the movie theater because the TV my family has is about ten years old so the picture doesn't look quite as pretty as the giant screens at the theater.
I go to midnight showings quite a bit, but that turns the movie into an experience rather than just a movie; Nothing like seeing tons of crazy people dressed up and super excited about something
The point, to me, of going to a theatre is the experience itself. Midnight showings are awesome and unique, but even a regular showing is worth going to for me, because there's nothing like seeing a film for the first time on a screen bigger than my entire living room with sound blasting through huge surround sound speakers. It's so much more intense, especially if it's an action or horror flick. Those are by far the movies to see in theatres.
I agrre with you on this one. Especially since the DVD releases are pretty fast nowadays. Some years ago you had to wait a lot longer for the VHS or DVD release of a movie. There is just no sense in going to a theatre any more.
I tried it in the past and it just made me realise how much I hate having people around me that are talking, eating etc. while I am trying to watch the movie.
And on DVD I can watch the english versions of the movie any time I want and not only in certain screenings.
I've recently gotten into seeing films at the cinema. For me, the allure is spending the day out with friends, and having a laugh. Yes, we could just all camp out in front of my TV, but it's not the same. Plus, if it wasn't for the little kid who went "uh-oh" everytime something bad happened in Shrek 4, i would hav hated that film.
@psy: It's weird how the moment something jumps into digital media, it's considered illegal to anything to it. But when i said it's not much worse than lending a physical copy, i meant because you could both be playing the game at the same time. It might be legal, but you could make an arguement for it being more harmful to sales than use& share. If both parties wanted to play a physical game on release, they would have to buy individual copies, as they can't both use one disc. They can however share digital files, so would only need to buy one. At the end of the day, it's not something i would choose to do (mind you, i rarely borrow/lend out physical stuff), but i don't frown on people who do it.
I've recently gotten into seeing films at the cinema. For me, the allure is spending the day out with friends, and having a laugh. Yes, we could just all camp out in front of my TV, but it's not the same. Plus, if it wasn't for the little kid who went "uh-oh" everytime something bad happened in Shrek 4, i would hav hated that film.
It's weird how the moment something jumps into digital media, it's considered illegal to anything to it. But when i said it's not much worse than lending a physical copy, i meant because you could both be playing the game at the same time. It might be legal, but you could make an arguement for it being more harmful to sales than use& share. If both parties wanted to play a physical game on release, they would have to buy individual copies, as they can't both use one disc. They can however share digital files, so would only need to buy one. At the end of the day, it's not something i would choose to do (mind you, i rarely borrow/lend out physical stuff), but i don't frown on people who do it.
Agreed. I swap purchases from Good Old Games with a friend. When one of us buys something there, the other is free to nab it. I don't see anything wrong with that, honestly. It really is no different than "Hey, let me borrow your copy of such-and-such", since we buy our own copies of what we like just to support GoG.
Agreed. I swap purchases from Good Old Games with a friend. When one of us buys something there, the other is free to nab it. I don't see anything wrong with that, honestly. It really is no different than "Hey, let me borrow your copy of such-and-such", since we buy our own copies of what we like just to support GoG.
I dished out Puzzle Agent to my bro, hardly felt criminal. He loved it by the by. Plus I can share it with him despite being in different cities, which is pretty cool and I wouldn't be able to do with physical media
I dished out Puzzle Agent to my bro, hardly felt criminal. He loved it by the by. Plus I can share it with him despite being in different cities, which is pretty cool and I wouldn't be able to do with physical media
This is another instance that I see pirating as acceptable, when it's among your close family members. If one member of the family owns a physical copy of a game, then it's unlikely that another person from the same family is going to buy it; they'll just wait until the buyer in the family is no longer using it, then they'll borrow it. But this is inconvenient because the buyer may need it back off their family member for some reason and, in JedExodus's case, is unable to get it back due to living far apart. So, the best option is just to pirate the game, because the borrower wouldn't be desperate enough for the product to buy it (because they know that a family member owns it), but they still want to be able to use it. So, for convenience reasons, piracy wouldn't really hurt here.
I do something that most people call very close to pirating(but I don't mind at all): PS3 Gamesharing with a close friend. In this sense, my friend has pirated around 60-70 PS3 and PSP games(including TDP).
This is specifically allowed in the license for PS3/PSP accounts.
This thread has been a good read. It's incredible how rational the discussion has been for something that's usually a pretty touchy subject.
Aye, I've been pleasantly surprised at how well it's going. I avoided this thread for awhile, imagining the usual strawmen and angry mobs.
I admitted this in the IRC channel some time ago: Piracy is actually what made me a devoted TTG customer. I was curious about this newfangled "Culture Shock" game, so I torrented it, expecting some dire, low-budget shadow of Sam & Max Hit The Road.
Next thing I knew, I was buying every new episode the day they released.
So, an overdue apology to Telltale for yoinking Culture Shock when it came out. When I saw the quality and love for the genre that went into it, I knew I couldn't keep doing that. Be assured that I've legitimately obtained all subsequent games.
I used to care a lot about the physical aspect of things, namely CDs. But when I had to move continents on a couple days' notice, I just couldn't take all of that along. I took tower-cases and filled them with CDs and DVDs and I don't have anything else. I don't even have all the booklets and stuff.
And while it was incredibly hard at the time, it kind of freed me of that ever since. Now I'm like "physical CD? Why?" I never use them apart from the one time after buying them, to extract the music. And I need to either go to the store or, more often, order it online and wait for it to ship, as opposed to buying it and downloading it right away.
Now I can't talk about iTunes, never used it. I've heard horror stories about it, people buying stuff there and being unable to use them on their devices and ending up pirating a copy just to be able to listen to the stuff.
I also like the option of buying only a few tracks. While I like buying a whole CD and discovering some songs I might not have gotten to hear otherwise, sometimes there is really just the one or two songs you like on an album.
Mind you, some CDs I still buy physical copies of. I have a specific example in mind: Rouge Sang, by Renaud.
This album is a physical hardcover book. Each song has its own page with the lyrics and illustrations so that the whole album is like a graphic novel. I think it's awesome. I wouldn't get that from just the digital files.
Mind you, I would have bought the digital files+book and not cared about getting any CDs.
I think DVDs and videogames feel different to me because I use the physical object all the time. It's physically inside the drive while I use the product. If I was just coopying it somewhere and then putting it on a shelf to stay untouched forever, I'm sure I'd feel differently about it.
I only pirate something if I know it is impossible to get any other way or I want something that I can put onto a disc for backup if I bought the game off Steam, eg, Monkey 1 and 2; I still bought them, but got a pirated version just to put on a disc.
I don't really know if this counts as pirating, but sometimes I crack games I have, but only because I can't be stuffed having a disc in the machine the whole time. Again, this is only with games I have actually bought.
As far as my views are concerned, I don't see it as some massive issue, but I still think that people should only do it for backup reasons.
I only pirate something if I know it is impossible to get any other way or I want something that I can put onto a disc for backup if I bought the game off Steam, eg, Monkey 1 and 2; I still bought them, but got a pirated version just to put on a disc.
I don't really know if this counts as pirating, but sometimes I crack games I have, but only because I can't be stuffed having a disc in the machine the whole time. Again, this is only with games I have actually bought.
As far as my views are concerned, I don't see it as some massive issue, but I still think that people should only do it for backup reasons.
I don't think it really is that bad in your case. Anyone who logs into an account that has the game purchased can have it on any computer they please, so you can have multiple copies with the original purchase (just not on CD).
And, do you happen to have a snazzy CD cover for it?
I only pirate something if I know it is impossible to get any other way or I want something that I can put onto a disc for backup if I bought the game off Steam, eg, Monkey 1 and 2; I still bought them, but got a pirated version just to put on a disc.
I don't really know if this counts as pirating, but sometimes I crack games I have, but only because I can't be stuffed having a disc in the machine the whole time. Again, this is only with games I have actually bought.
As far as my views are concerned, I don't see it as some massive issue, but I still think that people should only do it for backup reasons.
I've been meaning to do something like that for some of my steam games. Afterall, my Printer can print on CD's, so i could have awesome artwork on them!
I don't think it really is that bad in your case. Anyone who logs into an account that has the game purchased can have it on any computer they please, so you can have multiple copies with the original purchase (just not on CD).
And, do you happen to have a snazzy CD cover for it?
I accidentally pirated Torchlight.I got it from the library and keeped the installation for the case when i borrow it again.And than i found out that it runs without CD.
I can't remember if I've posted in this thread before or not. I'll check quickly.
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Nope! Ok, here we go.
I pirate stuff. Quite a bit, actually. But it's only ever games, because that's all I really care about downloading, with the exception of a few American shows that would take 6 months to come across to the UK.
When it comes to games, I'll generally download them, give them a try and then decide what to do with them. If they're good, I'll keep an eye out for them in Steam or IRL stores, and if they're cheap enough (</= £7, usually) then I'll buy it, if only to say 'hey, that was a good game, I'll support the devs and buy it'. If I don't enjoy the game, the pirated copy gets put on a shelf and left to gather dust, if it's not thrown out altogether (it has to be pretty bad for that to happen, but I have done it in the past and will probably do so in the future).
I know full well that it's not legal, but there's not really any impetus to stop doing it. Games are so easy to download. And the main draw for me is that this way I get to try games that I would never normally consider buying. Dark Sector is a good example of this - wouldn't have bought it, but downloaded it, tried it, liked it and bought it on Steam for £7. The Force Unleashed is another one I did the same for.
The only games that have really done a good job of putting me off downloading them have been the Ubisoft ones, but even then I've only bought the game once they're cracked and I've tried them to see if I like them or not, by which time they've gone down in price a bit. In some cases, the cracked version is even better then the retail one - I couldn't get the Malik or Sand Wraith skins for Forgotten Sands with the retail version, but they're nicely activated on my offline copy.
So, yeah. I pirate stuff. But it's not just because I can. It's mostly just to see what a game's like.
I don't pirate music since between iTunes and Spotify, I don't see a reason to as they're both convenient and legal. I won't pirate for the money, but I will pirate if the pirate version is better.
Non-game software in general I try using as much free software as possible, so not many buy-or-pirate decisions. I really should have paid for the Windows version I dual boot into for gaming, but that's mostly it.
I pirate plenty TV, particularly US shows and Doctor Who in the UK because it takes forever to get here, if at all, at reduced quality. I sometimes remember to buy the box set when it finally arrives here, but I don't actually use it for anything.
I wish I could say I didn't pirate movies but as long as the movie industry keeping pulling their DRM shit making it impossible to play under Linux, use a media server or play it on my laptop that has no BluRay drive I do. The pirate versions are by far more convenient.
Games are mixed, those that have so offensive DRM I'd have to install a crack anyway I pirate, since if I'm first going to do it I might as well go all in. The one-time activation of Telltale games don't count as offensive though, those I all buy and many others.
Many people here love Steam but I've experienced it when it's not working (not even offline mode), suddenly your whole game library is gone. If possible I buy the DVD version and use that. I got no ethical problems installing a No-CD exe on it if I can though.
If Steam is absolutely required and there's no crack in sight I might buy, I only consider it semi-offensive. Any shit on top of Steam (or on top of a simple CD check, no StarForce infestation) is an instant "pass or pirate", and yes I do pass up some games I'd really like to buy.
If this was AD&D, I'd probably be somewhere around chaotic neutral. I know what I want, and I do have the money to pay for myself. But I also have no problems breaking the rules if pirates deliver me better service or if I feel that it comes wrapped up in crap.
I'd gladly pay $100/month for what I get from my private torrent site membership, if I could get a legal service like that. But then the TV and movie industry has to get their head out of their ass like the music industry did. And they only did because Apple pulled it out.
Grey area for me, i find the reasoning to increase prices and/or give you ridiculous copy protection to defend against piracy ludicrous, piracy will always be there, always, so its best to cater you're games to invite people to enjoy them and pay for them. If a "customer" for lack of a better word has a good understanding with a developer then this will dissuade them to pirate the game, i would of gladly paid full price for any Bioware game 6 years ago for example, but now with the rampant DLC and destruction of my favourite franchises thats no longer the case, atleast not until i try them.
Which brings me onto my next point, i heard about the walking dead from a friend, having never tried any telltale games in the past, i new nothing about it. I downloaded the first episode from a certain site and immediately fell in love. Ofcourse i purchased the pass straight after episode 1. I believe piracy is okay in these situations, if you are like me and are fed up of being burned by greedy corporations and feel its necessary to try the game (i realize many people use this excuse and still dont pay for it). I would never have purchased TWG without pirating it as strange as that sounds.
TL;DR I will buy games if and only if i feel i am getting a just amount of bang for my buck as it were, and with companies i trust, Stardock, CD Projekt etc. I would probably add TTG to that to with the actual deliverance of promises with TWD, which is a noble thing in the games industry of late, keeping you're promises.
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Well, no other friend I have owns a PS3, and I wouldn't trust some of my other PSP-owning friends with my account.
This is a little scary.
So, there's this book series I'm desperately in love with called The Prince of Nothing (Check it out). I bought copies of the books. I figured some friends would like it, so I loaned them my books. Due to the first-sale doctrine this is 100% legal.
In the post I quoted, the things I bolded are all 100% legal. In fact, you can share a thing with as many people as you want *as long as you don't make any copies*
Copyright is an interesting thing. You can't make the blanket statement that putting up music on youtube is illegal. For example, if a musician chooses to use any of the Creative Commons licenses on their work then you can upload it to youtube all you want- so long as you attribute the original creator (and possibly meet some other standards; Read up on the licenses for more details).
Due to the concept of Fair Use, you can even use copyrighted material with zero permission whatsoever as long as you make a significant change or addition to the original material; For example, parody is explicitly allowed in all circumstances. Other things are less clear; A lot of youtube videos get into hazy legal ground.
Unfortunately, due to our legal system, unclear definition of copyright, lobbying by the industry, and general public misconceptions (like the ones I quoted), we've hit a point where tons of people think that fair use and sharing are all explicitly disallowed and illegal. Some things are, to be sure; blatant piracy of standard copyrighted material is illegal. But that doesn't mean that every time you loan a friend a game or listen to a burned CD in your car you're breaking the law.
I agrre with you on this one. Especially since the DVD releases are pretty fast nowadays. Some years ago you had to wait a lot longer for the VHS or DVD release of a movie. There is just no sense in going to a theatre any more.
I tried it in the past and it just made me realise how much I hate having people around me that are talking, eating etc. while I am trying to watch the movie.
And on DVD I can watch the english versions of the movie any time I want and not only in certain screenings.
The point, to me, of going to a theatre is the experience itself. Midnight showings are awesome and unique, but even a regular showing is worth going to for me, because there's nothing like seeing a film for the first time on a screen bigger than my entire living room with sound blasting through huge surround sound speakers. It's so much more intense, especially if it's an action or horror flick. Those are by far the movies to see in theatres.
@psy: It's weird how the moment something jumps into digital media, it's considered illegal to anything to it. But when i said it's not much worse than lending a physical copy, i meant because you could both be playing the game at the same time. It might be legal, but you could make an arguement for it being more harmful to sales than use& share. If both parties wanted to play a physical game on release, they would have to buy individual copies, as they can't both use one disc. They can however share digital files, so would only need to buy one. At the end of the day, it's not something i would choose to do (mind you, i rarely borrow/lend out physical stuff), but i don't frown on people who do it.
Shrek 4? is that still out?
He might've seen it a while ago.
And Friar, you are right. I hated Shrek 4, and there was no kid saying uh-oh.
Agreed. I swap purchases from Good Old Games with a friend. When one of us buys something there, the other is free to nab it. I don't see anything wrong with that, honestly. It really is no different than "Hey, let me borrow your copy of such-and-such", since we buy our own copies of what we like just to support GoG.
I dished out Puzzle Agent to my bro, hardly felt criminal. He loved it by the by. Plus I can share it with him despite being in different cities, which is pretty cool and I wouldn't be able to do with physical media
This is another instance that I see pirating as acceptable, when it's among your close family members. If one member of the family owns a physical copy of a game, then it's unlikely that another person from the same family is going to buy it; they'll just wait until the buyer in the family is no longer using it, then they'll borrow it. But this is inconvenient because the buyer may need it back off their family member for some reason and, in JedExodus's case, is unable to get it back due to living far apart. So, the best option is just to pirate the game, because the borrower wouldn't be desperate enough for the product to buy it (because they know that a family member owns it), but they still want to be able to use it. So, for convenience reasons, piracy wouldn't really hurt here.
This is specifically allowed in the license for PS3/PSP accounts.
What's really incredible is that this is how the entire forum was a few months ago. It's nice to get a little of that back.
Agreed, for some reason things gradually changed in the forums ever since the end of the Tales of Monkey Island season.
Aye, I've been pleasantly surprised at how well it's going. I avoided this thread for awhile, imagining the usual strawmen and angry mobs.
I admitted this in the IRC channel some time ago: Piracy is actually what made me a devoted TTG customer. I was curious about this newfangled "Culture Shock" game, so I torrented it, expecting some dire, low-budget shadow of Sam & Max Hit The Road.
Next thing I knew, I was buying every new episode the day they released.
So, an overdue apology to Telltale for yoinking Culture Shock when it came out. When I saw the quality and love for the genre that went into it, I knew I couldn't keep doing that. Be assured that I've legitimately obtained all subsequent games.
And while it was incredibly hard at the time, it kind of freed me of that ever since. Now I'm like "physical CD? Why?" I never use them apart from the one time after buying them, to extract the music. And I need to either go to the store or, more often, order it online and wait for it to ship, as opposed to buying it and downloading it right away.
Now I can't talk about iTunes, never used it. I've heard horror stories about it, people buying stuff there and being unable to use them on their devices and ending up pirating a copy just to be able to listen to the stuff.
I also like the option of buying only a few tracks. While I like buying a whole CD and discovering some songs I might not have gotten to hear otherwise, sometimes there is really just the one or two songs you like on an album.
Mind you, some CDs I still buy physical copies of. I have a specific example in mind: Rouge Sang, by Renaud.
This album is a physical hardcover book. Each song has its own page with the lyrics and illustrations so that the whole album is like a graphic novel. I think it's awesome. I wouldn't get that from just the digital files.
Mind you, I would have bought the digital files+book and not cared about getting any CDs.
I think DVDs and videogames feel different to me because I use the physical object all the time. It's physically inside the drive while I use the product. If I was just coopying it somewhere and then putting it on a shelf to stay untouched forever, I'm sure I'd feel differently about it.
I don't really know if this counts as pirating, but sometimes I crack games I have, but only because I can't be stuffed having a disc in the machine the whole time. Again, this is only with games I have actually bought.
As far as my views are concerned, I don't see it as some massive issue, but I still think that people should only do it for backup reasons.
I don't think it really is that bad in your case. Anyone who logs into an account that has the game purchased can have it on any computer they please, so you can have multiple copies with the original purchase (just not on CD).
And, do you happen to have a snazzy CD cover for it?
I've been meaning to do something like that for some of my steam games. Afterall, my Printer can print on CD's, so i could have awesome artwork on them!
And THEN you show me them! :mad:
Yeah, I do. I can show some pics if you want.
REVIVED!!
And yes, please show me the pictures
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Nope! Ok, here we go.
I pirate stuff. Quite a bit, actually. But it's only ever games, because that's all I really care about downloading, with the exception of a few American shows that would take 6 months to come across to the UK.
When it comes to games, I'll generally download them, give them a try and then decide what to do with them. If they're good, I'll keep an eye out for them in Steam or IRL stores, and if they're cheap enough (</= £7, usually) then I'll buy it, if only to say 'hey, that was a good game, I'll support the devs and buy it'. If I don't enjoy the game, the pirated copy gets put on a shelf and left to gather dust, if it's not thrown out altogether (it has to be pretty bad for that to happen, but I have done it in the past and will probably do so in the future).
I know full well that it's not legal, but there's not really any impetus to stop doing it. Games are so easy to download. And the main draw for me is that this way I get to try games that I would never normally consider buying. Dark Sector is a good example of this - wouldn't have bought it, but downloaded it, tried it, liked it and bought it on Steam for £7. The Force Unleashed is another one I did the same for.
The only games that have really done a good job of putting me off downloading them have been the Ubisoft ones, but even then I've only bought the game once they're cracked and I've tried them to see if I like them or not, by which time they've gone down in price a bit. In some cases, the cracked version is even better then the retail one - I couldn't get the Malik or Sand Wraith skins for Forgotten Sands with the retail version, but they're nicely activated on my offline copy.
So, yeah. I pirate stuff. But it's not just because I can. It's mostly just to see what a game's like.
Non-game software in general I try using as much free software as possible, so not many buy-or-pirate decisions. I really should have paid for the Windows version I dual boot into for gaming, but that's mostly it.
I pirate plenty TV, particularly US shows and Doctor Who in the UK because it takes forever to get here, if at all, at reduced quality. I sometimes remember to buy the box set when it finally arrives here, but I don't actually use it for anything.
I wish I could say I didn't pirate movies but as long as the movie industry keeping pulling their DRM shit making it impossible to play under Linux, use a media server or play it on my laptop that has no BluRay drive I do. The pirate versions are by far more convenient.
Games are mixed, those that have so offensive DRM I'd have to install a crack anyway I pirate, since if I'm first going to do it I might as well go all in. The one-time activation of Telltale games don't count as offensive though, those I all buy and many others.
Many people here love Steam but I've experienced it when it's not working (not even offline mode), suddenly your whole game library is gone. If possible I buy the DVD version and use that. I got no ethical problems installing a No-CD exe on it if I can though.
If Steam is absolutely required and there's no crack in sight I might buy, I only consider it semi-offensive. Any shit on top of Steam (or on top of a simple CD check, no StarForce infestation) is an instant "pass or pirate", and yes I do pass up some games I'd really like to buy.
If this was AD&D, I'd probably be somewhere around chaotic neutral. I know what I want, and I do have the money to pay for myself. But I also have no problems breaking the rules if pirates deliver me better service or if I feel that it comes wrapped up in crap.
I'd gladly pay $100/month for what I get from my private torrent site membership, if I could get a legal service like that. But then the TV and movie industry has to get their head out of their ass like the music industry did. And they only did because Apple pulled it out.
Which brings me onto my next point, i heard about the walking dead from a friend, having never tried any telltale games in the past, i new nothing about it. I downloaded the first episode from a certain site and immediately fell in love. Ofcourse i purchased the pass straight after episode 1. I believe piracy is okay in these situations, if you are like me and are fed up of being burned by greedy corporations and feel its necessary to try the game (i realize many people use this excuse and still dont pay for it). I would never have purchased TWG without pirating it as strange as that sounds.
TL;DR I will buy games if and only if i feel i am getting a just amount of bang for my buck as it were, and with companies i trust, Stardock, CD Projekt etc. I would probably add TTG to that to with the actual deliverance of promises with TWD, which is a noble thing in the games industry of late, keeping you're promises.