Ah, classic Confucius.

The only games I buy these days are indie games and those by consistently based companies like fromsoft

Though on the other hand, he who pirates software leaves door wide open for hackers posing as crackers.

At first when my antivirus software started getting hits in my cracked software folder, I thought it was just the companies working together to label pirated software as something scary. It wasn't until later that I realized that the antivirus software might have just been doing what it was supposed to. Though a false positive is also possible since injecting a crack might use code that looks similar to malicious code injection, but then I wonder if all of these crackers are just doing it out of the goodness of their hearts or if even just one of them can be malicious and I honestly see them going both ways.