Nobody seems to notice that the application creators did install without any warning or notification a "phone home" "feature", which opened a connection to them without the authorization of the owner of the phone. This is another "good practice" being abused by SW "developers".
There are a lot of "developers" which are only after a quick buck, by offering crapware.
The accusations of stealing do not apply to the cracker, he didn't even make a cent of his work. The only ones to blame are, eventually, those who are using the cracked application, but even they could not be technically accused with stealing, because the original owner wasn't "permanently deprived of his property".
A discussion about the whole IP stuff and the losses through "piracy" which IP holder companies are whining about, would take a lot of time and space.
But, for a short comparison with the real world, what would you say if a person could get just a license to use a car from the manufacturer, for which he had paid a certain amount, and the whole neighborhood would get a license, too, and summing up the license fees would add to a way higher amount than the value of the car?
The problem is: how can the real value of a virtual object be calculated?