"IMHO if you play more than 20 minutes into a game without throwing your burned disc out a window, you're being dishonest to yourself about your intentions."

Ever waste a little time playing flash games? Good enough to screw around with for a little while, but generally not so good that you'd pay anything to their creators. For me, the games I pirate are kinda like that.

I don't blame you for being skeptical- if I'm right on the fence about whether or not a game is good enough to buy, being able to pirate it might just tip the balance. The thing is, I can't think of a single example of that happening off the top of my head, whereas I could rattle off a whole list of games I abstained from buying- some of which would have been definite, first-day-in-stores purchases- because of DRM. My original post was tl;dr enough as it is, though.