I have a guy who once told me that since he paid for internet, he's entitled to everything that's being offered on the internet.
I've had discussions with pirates on Dutch gaming sites and I found it's useless arguing with them because all they bring to a discussion are meaningless rationalizations. They pirate because they love games/movies/music/etc, they can get it for free without too much trouble so they can spend their money on other stuff. That's all there's too it.
If you enter a discussion and say that the people who make those games deserve to be paid, this is what you'll hear:
- Games are too expensive
- Games are too short
- Games are not good enough
- They would never have bought this game anyway, so it's not a lost sale (even though they completed the full single player campaign)
- Retail games are riddled with DRM, pirated games don't harm your PC
- Publishers don't mind piracy, because it's good publicity
- Piracy does no harm. People have been pirating games for years and it hasn't stopped publishers from making even more new games
- Game developers are fucking rich and drive Ferraris, so they deserve piracy
- Pirates support the industry when they buy a new console or video card, so they deserve free games.
- Only stupid people pay for stuff you can get for free
All of those are simply rationalizations, because if those pirates find a game they want to play is actually impossible to pirate, they will grudgingly pay for it. That's why online enabled games get better sales than games with "just" a single player campaign.