Spreading the word about a game you pirated and enjoyed is "at worst an equal trade," Hakita says.
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You have to be playing Devil’s advocate for the sake of it because every significant study done on the subject shows that piracy has a positive or at worst neutral effect on the industry.

devil’s advocate would be calling this a hollow publicity stunt

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