3.2) THEFT OF SOFTWARE
Pirated software, is software obtained illegally, as when you make an illegal copy of a commercial videogame. This is so commonplace that software makers secretly prowl the Internet in search of purloined products and then try to get a court order to shutdown the seller sites.
In addition, software pirates often operate in China, Taiwan, Mexico, Russia, and various parts of Asia and Latin America, where the copying or counterfeiting of well-known software programs is practiced on a large scale. In some countries, most of the U.S. microcomputer software in use is thought to be illegally copied.