I liked the Windows spin it: "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting." Because they're right, the closest physical equivalent of software "piracy" isn'

I liked the Windows spin it: "You may be a victim of software counterfeiting." Because they're right, the closest physical equivalent of software "piracy" isn't stealing, which takes the existing item and deprives someone of it, it's forgery, which creates a new "copy" of the item that certainly doesn't have the right provenance and incidentally might, possibly, differ in functional characteristics as well. It devalues legitimate copies of the item in the same ways that counterfeiting does, not the way that theft does.