So basically, everyone I know is a pirate. Where I am, EVERYONE burns CD's, downloads games, plays emulated games instead of buying them on the Wii, etc. I'm pretty sure that it's the case where you are too. If I were to say that piracy is wrong, I would be in the minority. Now, when I go on the internet, however, it seems like EVERYONE is this piracy hating thingamabob. If you go on GameFAQs and ask about a snes game or something, people ask you if you're using a ROM and then tell you that whatever problem you're having has to do with the fact that you should be using the real cartridge that you can't actually get anymore and Nintendo and any third party won't get the profits for anyways, since it's second hand. If you discuss P2P networks, you're flamed into a closed topic.
So what gives? Why is it that in real life, everyone is for it and on the internet everyone hates it? My personal theory is that people are afraid of their respective governments and pretends to be against piracy when, really, they do it themselves and don't want to have any evidence floating around that they downloaded Linkin Park off of Kazaa.