I personally don't care about the frivolous lawsuits going on across the ocean, predicated on intellectual property laws which themselves do not make logical sense.
If someone has not been deprived of the use of something, it has not been stolen. Copying software is not theft, because the original owner still has it.
I don't know where you think it's written that you have a right to derive profit from every independent instance of your software. It costs you nothing (not even time) to duplicate it, and so therefore it should gain you nothing to do so. You only have a reasonable expectation of gain the first time you implement it, after which it is "in the wild", and ought to be considered public domain. After you sell it the first time, you don't own it anymore. That's what selling is. A transfer of ownership.
There is no other way to interpret law which pertains to software that is remotely logically self-consistent.
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