Honestly I do not agree at all with this. I’ve heard it so many times, but still I didn’t hear any serious motivation. I’m talking for my experience, my father has always downloaded illegal software (since the first twilight CD in the 90ies lol), and i grew up having almost every game for free. When i got closer to the IT world I just decided that it was wrong, and i started buying those games, wait for discounts, and play demos to decide if those games were worthy of my money or not. I would’ve downloaded all these games for free ten years ago, now I simply don’t. I believe that many people download illegal versions just because they can, and if you could prevent them from doing it, at least some of them would pay for it.