I think you are not true about "former parts". You can't judge everyone because he/she is from such country. Everybody is different, and every country has it's own law's. It's true, that selling copies is not good for author, I agree.
I agree that not everyone does this.
But stealing ideas and reverse engineering was a goverment policy in USSR. Some research places were founded ONLY to do reverse engineering. All was done on the goverment level. I think here we see results - these people looking for work.
It is not that important to have laws, important is to enforce them on all levels of power. And this is not done yet in USSR...