The Poor Quality of Some Video Game Pro-Piracy Arguments

I'm really not a fan of arguments attempting to justify digital piracy, even though some of those arguments may have more merit than others.  I can somewhat sympathize with the argument for preservation, but the short list of piracy-defending arguments below I consider quite poor and I'm more than happy to explain why.

1) Video Game Piracy Is Just Another Form of Robin Hood

With a lot of these pirates, it's not like Robin Hood robbing from the rich and giving to the poor.  These pirates are robbing from the rich and SELLING to whoever is willing to PAY.  Sounds less altruistic that way, doesn't it?

2) Gaming Companies Charge Too Much, So Piracy Is Okay

If you have a lot of time to play games and not enough money to buy them, you should probably spend some of that time working to earn the money to buy them.  Because I know a 40 hour a week job and a short commute doesn't leave me a whole heck of a lot of time for playing games very much.  And I can't picture having a much lighter work schedule than that.

Even if you have a job with crummy pay, we live in an era with a TON of low-cost or free entertainment everywhere you look.  Websites like Pluto and Tubi have more entertainment available than somebody could ever watch.  Why not just amuse yourself with that?

3) Gaming Companies Are Evil, So Piracy is Okay

Imagine some vegetarian animal rights activist stealing and eating as much pork and beef as possible simply because they hate the meat companies for killing animals for food.  Wouldn't that consumption be ridiculous and defeat the purpose?

And that's my big question to those that pirate games.  Why are you still using a product of a company you hate so much?  I would think that if they're as evil as you claim, you'd hate them enough that you wouldn't even want to PLAY their product, much less buy it.

When I got mad at WCW for pushing Goldberg so much in the late 90's, my solution wasn't to pirate their pay per views and watch them.  Nope.  I stopped watching their show altogether.  I wanted nothing to do with WCW anymore because it was no longer something I enjoyed.

Someone who uses a product without paying for it doesn't come across as some kind of social justice warrior fighting against the rich to me.  It just comes off as someone too cheap to pay for the things they want.  Someone who truly hates a video game company for all its evil deeds is not going to play their games at all.  Aren't there a whole lot of other video game companies whose games you can play anyway?