What is annoying is that there is a whole ecosystem out there based on people who post pirated and cracked software, music and films etc in order to profit from affiliate schemes and click through ads. I kind of agree though with those who have said that people who download pirate stuff in most cases are not potential customers anyway so you really aren't losing sales to these people. If I was a Dev I would certainly be very tempted to post fake pirate copies stuffed full of really nasty viruses. I sometimes feel you can often detect the warez user just by the lumpy quality of music and programming/production. The other thing is that you could hear very quickly that the typical 'warez' user had only a very superficial competence and skill in using the stuff. I swear that the majority of the people only used a fraction of the sample libraries and plug-ins they 'owned'. Obviously I noticed that everyone had their Photoshops, Mayas, Unity's, Final Cuts, Kompletes, Omnispheres, Symphobias, Cubase 5 (the last one they could pirate), Ableton, etc., but you also had the guys who would just hoard anything, large or small, just because it's seemingly cool to have it. I remember my time at the university: of course, there were hard drives circulating, and you knew the 'go-to guys' who had everything ready that could somehow turn out useful during the studies and the future career. As GULL already said: it seems that if you can pirate something, you shouldn't miss the opportunity.

The way it seems to me is that the act of pirating software and media is more something like a twisted hoarding behavior. Unfortunately, I don't even think that's really true in many cases.

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