You know what. I'll admit that I have games on disk that I didn't buy in the store. I also have a dozen games that I did buy. This goes for every system that I own (and I own almost every system back to the Odyssey²). But I wouldn't have bought ANY of the games that I d/l'ed anyway. So the publishers, MS, Sony, Nintendo (N64 & SNES) wouldn't have made a dime off me anyway. But I did put something back into the retail business. IE: Broadband connection to get all the goodies, DVD Burner, Blank DVD's, Cases, Ect.
But the games that I have, I don't even play. Its more of a collection then "oh, I must have that". Because if I did "have to have it" I would just buy it. But if its a lame ass game, (and I've bought plenty of lame ass games *after* trying the demo which made it seem cool, I would try it and then shelve it.
Its not much worse then renting. You think Blockbuster is sending a part of that rental fee to the publisher? If you really need help with that answer PM me and I'll tell you. The only difference here is that I don't pay a rental fee. And when I find a rental program that is as good as Netflix, then I may just save my bandwidth and rent the game instead. Is the publisher making any more money from that? Nope, not a dime. I'm I really supporting (insert your favorite company here)? Nope. Doesn't even show up as a blip.
So if you were trying to make us "pirates" feel bad, it didn't work on me. You can take your morals or whatever you call them these days and stick them up your "happy hole".