"illegal copy" can be used in written English.
It is often used when referring to a copy of a product that was not legally obtained or is not authorized by the original owner or creator of the product. For example: "The store was selling illegal copies of the latest video game."
Even before the George Lucas film opened in May, an illegal copy could be downloaded from the Internet.
Their target is people who can be enticed to watch an illegal copy of "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" on the Web.
In August, the Gillette Company sued Schick -- or, actually, Energizer Holdings, Schick's parent company -- accusing it of patent infringement, claiming that Schick's four-bladed Quattro razor is an illegal copy of Gillette's three-bladed Mach3 razor.
The move will save Kelvin Downey, a 23-year-old bartender in Ireland, from having to spend four days dodging mentions of the finale online or being tempted to download an illegal copy of it — though it will mean tuning in at the very un-prime-time hour of 5 a.m. on Monday to watch.
Starting to feel desperate, I thought for a moment about hopping on the laptop and searching BitTorrent for an illegal copy, but given that I make a living creating original content for a large media company, stealing from another one did not seem like a good idea.
The would-be markets for used digital goods, like Redigi or eBay, have been sued for copyright infringement, on the premise that the goods being resold were either never sold in the first place or based on the technicality that every transfer of a digital good creates an illegal copy.
If someone makes illegal copies of a book, then you've bought them illegally, and you are not allowed to resell them.
Please do not make illegal copies of this film".
ILLEGAL copying and sharing of copyrighted material is hard enough to stop within a country.
"If very recent titles are being sold, they are almost invariably illegal copies".
People have swapped illegal copies of songs, television shows and movies on the Internet for years.
