It depends on what it is for me. If it's a program that I need for a project, something I'll use maybe once or twice then never touch again...of course I'll pirate it. If it's something good that's worth being bought I'll usually buy it; I've bought vbulletin for 2 years now despite all the nulled copies to be found. It's more of a gray line for me, even still, I don't use pirated software nearly as much as I did when I was younger. I agree with this. Everything seems to be astronomically high priced.
Very rightly said. Agree with the above 100%. Plus, just think about it like this : On one side, there are these "Big" corporations and companies who earn billions of dollars selling all their software. Obviously they are making hell of a profit. While on the other side, we got poor people, just as BrandNewx stated, who earn just enough to allow them to live for another day. So those poor people are forced to use pirated copies of software. Also, as someone stated before, opensource is not as easy to use and up to the mark when compared to other softwares. So, i consider it foolishness to expect them to be paying 800$ for a software, when the chances are that they won't be seeing 800$ in their whole lifetime.
you must be joking you know how to write a blog , and how to make an user on the forums but you didn't know until now if there are open office .... you know about ebay and how you can get stuffs from there and you didnt know about free software's