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Excuses is exactly what they are.

The overriding reason people pirate is that they can something for free, so why pay for it?

When I was a poor student I pirated games too, but now that I'm a somewhat well payed software developer I buy pretty much every (mostly indie) game I play (and quite a few I end up not playing) because ~$20 every month or two is simply not an amount of money I will notice missing.