Even without the passage of the proposed New York bill targeting stolen software as an unfair competitive advantage, the potential to use the New York unfair competition law to pursue foreign companies using pirated IT may still be a productive option. Historically, New York courts have broadly construed the unfair competition statute: "The incalculable variety of illegal practices denominated as unfair competition is proportionate to the unlimited ingenuity that overreaching en-trepreneurs and trade pirates put to use."20 Combining this broad construction with the size and nature of New York state's industries--including fashion and apparel, manufacturing, and technology companies--likely competing against foreign competitors using stolen IT, the opportunity is ripe to follow the lead of California and Massachusetts and fight back by asserting unfair competition claims.