[citation][nom]kingnoobe[/nom]Ya back, and speeding is illegal to.. You better never go 1 mph over the speed limit our I hoped your fined 80,000$ for every mile over.. Freaking retard.. When you can prove I would buy it, then you can say it's theft. Because more often then not I torrent first, buy later. As I mainly play games for the multiplayer part, but single player gives you a hint.[/citation]
What you mean is "Lost sales". Any torrent is theft, just like taking it from the shelves at the store. The difference is that a torrent is not a lost sale. It's just a digital copy, so it's not a product missing from the shelves, preventing someone else from buying it.
In both cases, piracy or store theft, they are both thefts and to the thief they don't represent a lost sale. The thief doesn't always use what he steals.