Technically, software program piracy for private use is a misdemeanor at most. However the place it will get enjoyable is that, relying on what nation you are in, it is not even unlawful if the software program you pirated is not legally obtainable there. The absurdly fallacious authorized assumption is that each single one that pirates software program would have purchased it as an alternative if piracy weren’t an possibility, so piracy harms the vendor you’d have purchased it from. If there isn’t any authorized solution to pay somebody for it, meaning your act of piracy did not deprive anyone of the cash that they’d in any other case have a proper to obtain from you in alternate for the software program. No hurt, no foul.
And the place it will get actually enjoyable is once you have in mind second-hand sellers providing software program that can not be resold based on the phrases of service, as a result of now your act of piracy is technically harming somebody, however for those who do not pirate, then that vendor is the one doing one thing unlawful by promoting you the second-hand software program in violation of the ToS. Which implies that whereas there’s a substitute for piracy, there is no such thing as a authorized various to piracy. So in some locations, in some circumstances, even when the software program is out there for buy, then “piracy” continues to be allowed.
This, nevertheless, doesn’t apply to Play Retailer reward playing cards being region-locked. OP ought to have knowledgeable themselves about that. Caveat emptor.
