well the thing about business ethics (some business CEO's probably wrote this) is that it normally deals with doing something right (normally just minimalise damage) but allows room for exploitation. morally acceptable is hardly the term id use for it, but id say if we do analyse with arguments of what business do vs piracy, its like pot calling the kettle black you get what i mean? thus i normally say that hey piracy is not really wrong if you consider what firms are doing.

indies will always be indies, in any industry indies will always be the back sheep of the market. you can pick it indie car producer, indie musician,indie movie maker. it is sad really but something that well cant be helped

ah this is where you get me wrong, i dont pass judgement doesnt mean i am supporting it. basically i am a neutral
and my arguments all center on why i dont pass judgement, to me its like two evils arguing which is lesser of a bad guy. 
on indies refer to the above

again i condone, basically i dont pass judgement and i disregard the arguements for and against. but really i follow the same thought as these businesses do, simple and yet understandable - i exploit. i believe in a rather consumer version of miltons argument of businesses, firms are there to make money and exploit markets; i am there to exploit markets and save personal value.

the rather odd thing is that most businesses agree with me, just that they do it in their courts

Here's a fact:
Pirates only pirate big game titles. I mean, you won't find a pirated copy of indie work. Cause they know AAA titles will be a hit once it's released. So they hitch the ride without authorization.

To combat piracy, I see there are only 2 ways: lower down the price/go back to the shareware-way, that is, release a semi-full product for the consumer to try first, if they like it, just buy it. The next way is sell the games through digital distribution (I miss those big manuals..) with full tech support i.e. patch and DLC (I don't like DLC though, to me it kills the modification capability of a game).

Isn't PC already dead? The way i see it, PC is a lot of hardware muscle but hardly any interesting games...it's always FPS, FPS and more FPS. I seriously, don't know what's wrong with PC gamers. Occasionally, there's the racing and RPG, but most are cross platform games anyway. So with consoles, u get to play exclusives Ninja Gaiden, Bayonette and most of the PCs good stuff. Even RTS on PC seems quite dead nowadays.

btw, i refused to pirate any FPS games. It's a waste of cost of the CD IT'S burned on. Just ask Captain Jack Sparrow. 

sometime, financial problem, if u wait until the game got promo, sure that time is very hard to past, watching people playing that game...

until the time u got the ori one, no one play that game, then what the point of playing that game?

i bought hellgate : london collectors edition pulak!

so did i