Yes. It does. I refer you to copyright law, US Code Title 17 versus US Code Title 18 which covers theft.
You are entitled to your own opinion. You are NOT entitled to your own facts.
And even a person as immoral as you knows what that makes you.
You seem to have jumped to a nonsensical conclusion. No where have I stated that I at any time have infringed Microsoft's copyright by making an unauthorized copy of any of their software. I've been referring to the law and the state of copyrights in this country.
I refer you to my tag line.
Now if you want to talk about immoral, we can talk about (ex-)Senator Fritz Hollings (D-Disney) and (late) Congressman Bono (R-Hollywood Movie Companies) who pushed through some very long copyright extensions making copyrights essentially forever, which is in direct violation of the Constitution of the United States, Article 1, Section 8 which says that Congress shall have the following authority:
To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
Note the "limited times" part of that. The purpose of which is clearly spelled out: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."
Not "To provide a perpetual income stream." Not "To provide for eternal control of an idea."
No, it's to provide for inventors and creators to get paid for their ideas before they go into the public domain, were they must inevitably go. By extending copyrights for hundreds of years those ideas will probably be useless by then, thus providing no promotion of progress.
The idea was that a creator would create something and after a limited time it would go into the public domain where it would then stimulate others into creating new works based on the old and so on and so forth. This has effectively stopped. I refer you to the same old crap coming out of Hollywood year after year.
I have no problem with Microsoft getting paid for their work. I do have a problem with the idea that they are entitled to getting paid for their work forever and with them creating locks and barriers in their software that ensures that even if copyright expires, no one will be able to use their software without their permission.
Activation, software encryption, DRM and a host of other methods have been used to try to ensure that no one can use software without the writer's permission, regardless of whether or not copyright has expired.
Taking these measures is cheating the copyright system because it prevents others from using the software after the copyright expires.
Gee, that's nice of you!
I do have a problem with the idea that they are entitled to getting paid for their work forever and with them creating locks and barriers in their software that ensures that even if copyright expires, no one will be able to use their software without their permission.
Thieves hate locks on doors.
BTW, us code title 17 does not define the broad term "stealing." You are entitled to make up facts any more than you are entitled to steal things you aren't bright enough to invent yourself.
Your problems with the criminals in government being in collusion with business is a different question than the one presented here.