Do you pirate?

[Symphony]

Yes, I do pirate. And for me it became so common that I hadn't have an original game since I got myself a copy of Age of Wonders II. I don't have excuses on 'the gaming companies don't deserve my money' or something on those tracks, but I do have my motives:

I own a kinda old laptop (IIRC, it's from 2009) that lacks a decent video-card (if you'd wish to know it's a 'Mobile Intel® 4 Series Express Chipset Family'). That means even though a game might NOT pass on checks, such as the 'Can You Run It' , it just might run in my laptop without ANY problems, given the possibility to tweak with the game settings.
This means that without actually running the game, I simply can't tell if it'll be playable or not.
I may add to that the fact that games here are WAY overpriced (somewhere around x2~3 the prices in US/Europe) and I simply won't make my family have another expense when I clearly have an alternative. I also don't have access to Steam or any other selling platforms.

On the movies subject, it's rather simple: when I'm spending my vacations with my family in my hometown, I can't watch movies on the theaters because we have none. However, when I'm away during the rest of the year I just find myself with cinemas that abuse dubbed movies. And those suck.