Please could members recall that we are an international forum and that different laws apply in different jurisdictions.
Therefore, it is inaccurate to make sweeping generalisations about copyright or whether copying violates copyright, is an example of theft etc.
For what it's worth, I've done a spot of idle googling and have discovered that Afghanistan doesn't currently have copyright relations with the U.S. So copying and reproducing the latest Dan Brown is legally permissible in Afghanistan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghani...pyright_issues
A similar situation obtains in Iran and Laos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_copyright_issues
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...pyright_length
and we have a few Iranian members, I believe. They may be dismayed to find themselves categorised as lawbreakers if they are engaging in an activity which is entirely licit in their own country.