The not allowed and therefore prohibited as well as infringing the copyright or individual license agreements copy of a computer program, a data CD, Audio CD or DVD is colloquially called pirate copy.
The expression which implicates physical violence as well as the theft of an object is misleading and is of no relevance to copyrights. It makes no sense to go on talking about violations against copyrights in these cases.
It is explicitly permitted, fundamentally or under special conditions, to make copies of certain types of software licenses, such as of Shareware, Freeware, and Software, which is subject to GNU-license.
Security copies of commercial programs bearing a charge are always admissible to guarantee that the functionality of the program is always available, i.e. can be retrieved at any time. Nevertheless, the parallel use of a program which has only been paid for once on two servers is not permitted and could therefore be understood as the production of a “pirate copy”.
No longer permitted is the avoidance of an existing effective copy protection for commercial or private use which is therefore liable to prosecution. §§ 95a ff.UrhG decribes “the protection of technical measures” in detail. In accordance with § 95a Abs. 1 UrhG technical measures may not be avoided without prior agreement of the holder of the right.