It is very much a problem of convenience. I paid for the Sims 4. It required me to use the EA launcher, which wasn't only slow, it was buggy and crashed constantly. So I pirated the game and played that way instead, despite having access to a legal copy. No launchers, no account sign in, no ads. Plenty of other people happily cut out the middle man and go straight to piracy.
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It is very much a problem of convenience. I paid for the Sims 4. It required me to use the EA launcher, which wasn't only slow, it was buggy and crashed constantly. So I pirated the game and played that way instead, despite having access to a legal copy. No launchers, no account sign in, no ads. Plenty of other people happily cut out the middle man and go straight to piracy.
It can be interpreted as having a personal backup copy, because a) you already paid, and b) you don’t distribute the unprotected copy you have.