mrkgnao: If I understand your comment correctly, you say that because a company lends you a game rather than sells it to you, it's OK to steal it.
This is, I believe, the same logic that would state that it is OK to steal books from a library because they too do not sell the books, but only lend them[..]
phaolo: However, with DRM, the "library" lent you a book, but made you think that you bought it. Quite a shady behaviour.
Anyway, buying the game for real (=DRM free) here on GOG for a few dollars surely wouldn't hurt the OP so much.
And downloading it pre-cracked from a Russian torrent site won't hurt the OP at all. It's the principle of the thing :-)
Olegdr: LifthrasilI - This very attitude from the game companies is the reason I see nothing inherently wrong with piracy. In fact, piracy was the only thing that made me be able to play the game yesterday.
mrkgnao: If I understand your comment correctly, you say that because a company lends you a game rather than sells it to you, it's OK to steal it.
This is, I believe, the same logic that would state that it is OK to steal books from a library because they too do not sell the books, but only lend them.
For me, this is no justification for piracy. If I want to buy a game rather than have it only lent to me, then I buy it from a company that sells games, not from a company that only lends them. And if there is no such company for a specific game, then I do not buy it and I do not play it.
I don't think the library analogy is correct. As others have stated, I bought a license to use the game - I did not expect somebody would one day be able to pull the plug on it and stop me from using my legally purchased (not borrowed!) software.