Is Software Piracy Really a Crime? - Comments Page 2

"But stealing something that hasn't been sold is still stealing."

This is unsatisfactory and hand waving of the real issue that a software is not a material object and somebody using it when made available for free by someone else 'does not imply' a lost sale and deprivation. The reality is that many of these people ("pirates") would not have bothered exploring these software were they not available for free on internet, affordable or not doesn't change anything, it is a personal subjective choice.
Neither does it make any sense for a person to be liable to pay for it if using cracked version of a software, such EULA condition is a forced nonsense, it is more of a law put in for corporate greed to steal money they never actually were to get. What these companies claim is all bogus and notional. Using a cracked available version is completely harmless act done by the person free to do what he wants to do, there is no harm intended/done to anyone.
There is no way to distinguish among them the borderline users, which is pointless in any case as you cannot force someone to buy a software.
By releasing hypothetically uncrackable software or somehow restricting human freedom with a restrictive nonsense copyright law implemented you would only gain the borderline customers, but it is something useless since a comparable number of users using a cracked version are equally likely to buy and support which they wouldn't have otherwise happened to use and like.
If a company thinks/says it is not doing well because of 'software piracy', it should move on to do something else than making software.