It makes sense that you would be dubbed a theif for that.

However, I got into playing Age of Kings by a hacked version which I downloaded and got the Expansion pack for illegally as well. At the time I was a lot younger so I didn't really think twice about it. The game was awesome - nothing was missing besides the music track and at the time I didn't care. I played that game for countless hours and I'm possitive that if I didn't have those hours of play with that game I wouldn't be here today. After about a year or so playing the game I wanted to support Ensemble Studios for putting forth such a great game and went and bought the game and XP - mainly just because I'd never played it with the music track - and cause Age of Mythology was due out in six months. It's strange - I started by illegally downloading that game and ended up with such respect for the developer that I bought AoM soley because I respected the developers work; very similar to Creative Assembly now.

Oh yeah - don't download games, kids - it's wrong.