What Does Software Pirate Mean?

A software pirate is someone who is engaged in software piracy. Software piracy is the general principle of unauthorized use or access of software products and services.

Techopedia Explains Software Pirate

By some estimates, pirated software comprises more than one-third of all active software in use around the world. The vast amount of pirate software, and the many ways that software can be pirated, have made anti-piracy security a huge industry. Where digital content has different digital rights management (DRM) strategies applied to protect it from piracy, software systems can be uniquely vulnerable to this type of theft.