Fantastic Anti-piracy Statement

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No, that's not quite what I meant. Pirating a game to "try it out" is the same as taking a chair home and "try it out", and may as well keep it instead of paying for it.

It is not. This fallacy is used by almost all opponents of piracy and no matter how often it is said, it seems like people do not grasp the fundamental difference between theft and piracy.

Here is the most basic explanation there is:

Software is immaterial. Products are material. What happens when you steal a physical product? You take away a physical representation of an idea that costs money to manufacture. Ergo, by stealing you cause the company to lose money = theft.

When you steal software, you take away a copy of an idea. It doesn't exist, therefore it is not a physical product. Furthermore, because it is a copy, you are not actually stealing anything. If you were to steal the source code and sell it, that is intellectual property theft, which is a crime. A copy of the game resources is data that inhabits an immaterial world. It cannot be stolen.

Period.