My negative reaction to the post is due to “I don’t feel like paying for it”

“I can’t afford it”, “I want to see if I can run it”, “I don’t support the restrictive drm” are all valid reasons to pirate in my opinion, but none of them appear to apply here and “I don’t feel like paying” absolutely isn’t, especially if they would buy it if they couldn’t pirate it (which is the impression I get from the post).

In most cases calling piracy stealing/theft is stupid, but in these cases it actually is akin to shoplifting from a chain store