First off, much effort has been spent recently complaining about the effects of video game violence on children and adolescents. It's a straw man. People act like violence didn't exist until Adventure came out for the Atari. I'm sure that a bunch of researchers somewhere can show me that children who play video games are more aggressive immediately after their games. I'm pretty confident that you'd find those same children are more aggressive after a game of basketball or football as well.
Games bring out the competitive nature of human beings.
This is not late breaking news. Piracy has always been a big issue with PC games, and it's not going away anytime soon. Yeah, it's a problem. I think it's mostly a problem in foreign countries. I know that Asia has a lot of piracy going on because there's very little we can do to enforce it.