I've playing games for 19 years, since my late dad gave me demo discs to play games on his laptop, when I was 4 years old kid. I started to pirate as early as 14 or 13 years old. I'm a huge activist for Data Hording, Piracy and Open Source. As we saw what's happening in months; Like Adobe doing shady stuff with AI and "Scamming" customers (later they get sued for it), games being 70 dollar and expansive to MENA and LATAM countries, Nintendo strikes on Preserved Rom and Rom Hack sites and later making old Rom available on Nintendo Store with more expansive price and more.
And now, my fav YouTuber, Ross from Accursed Farms doing campaign for stopping game companies killing games and easing them from internet or physical media. You can watch his video on this. This is only for EU residents (also he tries to make this for America too, soon), how about MENA and LATAM? The Middle Eastern, Latin America, Eastern Europe and Asia? Of course, piracy.
Well, since those countries are not ok with prices from Steam, EGS, MS Store, Xbox Game Store and GoG. Being too expansive to buy or not supported by their currency or, worst, being banned from the store to buy games or software. Gaming meant to had to be fun, not being a luxury product that you play for a minute. Well, this is where Piracy comes in. Since I'm pirating software and games since 14 or 13, I know what they felt about not having those things. The same goes to poor kids in streets, seeing other kids having fun with their new toys that their parents got. This is where free stuff (piracy) comes in, you give your toy to that kid, for free. Also piracy gives us a lot of things; Offline Installer, Offline Play, Hacked Multiplayer (to play) and more. Even few MMOs that is reversed engineered to played on private servers or offline server.
Remember, piracy is NOT STEALING. Piracy is COPYING PRODUCT TO GET IT FOR FREE. If you care about your income money, then this is for you. Piracy is fine to have anything you want, long as you're not SELLING THE PIRATED CONTENT TO SOME PEOPLE. Let me tell it in short, TLDR;
Piracy is not STEALING CONTENT, It's means you're COPYING CONTENT to get for FREE.
SELLING PIRATED CONTENT is STEALING.
Now you understand.