When is piracy not wrong?

Never...

Then again it doesn't really matter if there isn't a legal way to get a product.

Why no poll? :)
I used to pirate until I started to work. That was also around the time when I found a fun youtuber's channel that was strongly against piracy and also about a time that I found this website, and various discounts on Steam and bundles :)

it's ok to pirate when someone thinks they have a valid excuse to do it. ^^

When it's ubisoft. (jk don't sue me anyone pls)

When it is Capcom or Bethesda.

Emmm...When you steal a computer from a pirateso he will not be able to downlaod games/music and so on without paying
I mean...pirating from the pirates making this anti-pirate :D

Here's a thread from a while ago tackling the same topic. You may be interested in having a look.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/iVfPP/

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Also see these:
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/MhZ9u/why-do-people-pirate-games
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/fUwKJ/illegal-downloading-of-games-is-there-some-wiggle-room

What can I say, I'm an eternal forum lurker.

It's never okay, really. Especially with Steam and its partners offering extremely cheap games and people having hundreds of games.
Video games are luxury items and it takes a lot of effort and resources to create them so if we want more we have to support them.

Also I can't really feel empathy for online pirates since you can literally make $1-5 a day doing stuff like online surveys or freelance work.

Imagine this way. A guy hates Apple but he kinda likes the new Iphone. Would it be OK if he steals the Iphone just because he doesn't like Apple but enjoys the phone? The best way is boycott Apple and go get another good phone.

I am doing this right now with EA and the Battlefront II situation.

I played pirated games for years, when I couldn't afford - I had no good internet connection - or even there was no steam etc. But now I feel responsible for those days and I tend to buy the games I played back in the day. I don't even install most of them. They're like childhood memories I want to keep in my library. Now I almost never play pirated games. Sometimes I want to play games that is not on sale anymore, like the battle for middle-earth. I either go to a local internet cafe, or... :) Have good one people.

I buy games to support the developers, so that the people that made the game can continue making more games. If you think a game is worth playing, than the people who made it are worth supporting by buying the game.

So when is piracy okay? When a game is not available for sale, such that there's no way to buy a new copy of the game (No One Lives Forever, Richard Burns Rally).

as I'm becoming a software developer, it would be pretty hypocrite to pirate others work and expect others to pay me for mine

I don't care if other people pirate games - it's their own choice. But I'd never pirate a really good game, since that would be unfair towards the developer.

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When the DRM is so invasive that it degrades performance, for example Assassin's Creed Origins.

When people own a physical copy that stopped working, when the product isn't on sale anymore, when you just want to try the thing for a bit and if you like it you buy it... special cases like those.

I'll download a game if I'm not sure whether I'll like it or not and there's no demo available. A lot of people will say "just watch a video of someone playing it" but that isn't always a good indication, I've bought games before that looked like a lot of fun from others playing them but then I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would, if at all. Dead Island being a prime example, looked like fun from watching videos but I ended up hating it.

If I like a game after playing it I'll buy it, if not I delete it and move on.

Well, I'm from Brazil too and we are hypocrites.
I mean, I keep saying to myself and to everyone that pyracy is wrong.
I use Spotify, I use Netflix, I have thousands of games on steam.
But everytime a movie or serie launchs, I go for my torrents and watch them.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-08-25-darkwood-developer-releases-its-own-game-on-pirate-bay

I personally don't pirate games, mostly because I already have 99% of my library to work through across multiple platforms, but some of my less scrupulous friends torrent things (not just games) every other day. They tend to refer to it as "sampling" instead of "pirating" though, as they believe 60 dollars per AAA game is simply not feasible, especially when they won't even be fully playing through most of the games, as the time investment really adds up + there are so many full priced games being released that buying and experiencing them all would be super duper expensive.

When you use the pirated copy as extended demo.

If the game is not available to you (japan only games), if the developers would not get any money from you buying the game (used games), or if you have already purchased a license for the game (You have a physical copy and lost it, or just want to play it on your computer).

The third one is a legal defense. Though you would be required to show that you bought the license, as well as prove that your pirated copy is identical. So you wouldn't be able to beat a lawsuit if you lost it, or if your pirated copy was, for example, skyrim SE if you only bought the old skyrim. But I could legally download, own, and use a pokemon ruby rom because I own the physical copy which is identical to the rom, but I couldn't legally distribute it.

I bought Fallout 3 years ago and really enjoyed it but never finished it. Then a few years later I got into Steam and bought it again and it was fine on my old PC but once I got a new computer it wouldn't run. I still never finished the game and in the end the only version I could get to run was a pirated copy which ran on an really old windows XP machine! I had already bought it twice though lol!

I actually used to pirate a lot many years ago but since Steam came out, I now only play Steam games and I've even re-bought old DVD-based games on Steam!