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Using commercial software without paying for it is, in general, stealing.

But here are a bunch of things that are not stealing:

  • Using commercial software on a country other than where it was made available for sale
  • Using commercial software after the vendor no longer wants you to
  • Using commercial software in ways the vendor doesn’t like, such as on a device the vendor doesn’t approve of
  • Using commercial software on multiple devices, provided you use it on only one of them at a time
  • Making a backup copy of commercial software so you don’t lose it if the original copy is lost
  • Giving others a copy of commercial software that is no longer available for sale
  • Modifying commercial software to make it more enjoyable, such as by removing user-hostile misfeatures
  • Reverse engineering commercial software to learn how it works

Note that several of these items (such as cracking cheat protection in a multiplayer game) enable you to use commercial software in a way that unfairly harms others (such as cheating in a multiplayer game). That’s not stealing, but it is wrong in other ways.

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Its still not theft by legal means.

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