Some personal thoughts on piracy (warning - long post)

[Yuhaney]

If you have payed for the game before playing it (even the most minimum price) and it does not work the way it supposed to, I don't see problem with that.

Good. Then you won't mind if I test out your game first, too.

Our game? Hold on here.
You might note that what I say, doesn't represent Frictional Games in ANY way. I'm not part of Frictional Games' developing team, neither publisher, I'm just a forum moderator.

Also, I didn't say that I accept downloading illegaly game BEFORE paying for it.
That's why there's demo, which you can download if you want to test the game.

If you pay for the game, and it doesn't work the way it was supposed to, for example, it complains something missing and reinstalling and patches do not work, this case, I don't take it as a pirated game, even though it is...
In this case, I will look it more from a point of morality.