Illegal copying of software and distributing it in not a new thing, it can be spotted back to the ’70s, In 1966 the first software was patented. After MITS released BASIC interpreter software the homebrew computer group and software piracy was born.
There are about 6000+ OS X Leopard illegal downloads and about 5500+ Windows 7 download at any given time. Some more interesting stuffs about software piracy below.