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Perhaps you will under stand it this way...
Copyright law is intended to protect the creators right of saying that he or she had written such materials, like lets say a book or even a computer program. Such copyright law is intended to protect intellectual property, which is not covered under law... now when a person makes a copy of materials not for republication like scanning a book or a computer program code then there is no new claim to the content... now when you copy someones else's work and claim it as your own then you are plagiarizing yourself...
Now when you make a copy of a program you are not plagiarizing yourself, because you are not claiming that you had created it... within many user agreements there are section within as to define how such programs can be used and such touches on contractual law, but this is not copyright law.
I can understand if for example someone took computer code or writings that someone came up with and used their concepts and passages and wrote a new book or a computer program then claimed it as their own... but making a personal copy of a software program is not the same.
Just to clearify my point of view.
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