It's not just developing markets like Romania. I grew up in poverty in Australia, and pirating software was simply the only way to access it. Without access to

It's not just developing markets like Romania. I grew up in poverty in Australia, and pirating software was simply the only way to access it. Without access to the software, I would never have been able to learn the skills required to earn the money to pay for the software now. I'm not saying that piracy should be accepted for that reason; I'm saying (and I believe the OP was saying) that piracy is simply the only way to access the tools required to get out of poverty for many, many people. This shouldn't be how it is, but some serious thought has to go into how to make things available fairly to those people who would otherwise just pirate it. Some money is better than no money, and software that is frequently pirated is obviously in demand with people who can't afford it.