What are the alternatives to get a free copy of licensed software?

Having recently read the post with the video that copying is not stealing, I again thought. After all, it is not a secret that there are a lot of developers, programmers, designers, and all those who are involved in software production themselves, and who suffer from the fact that their software is “copied” and not bought.
As a developer, I constantly have to acquire development software, for example, for working with databases or new IDE development environments, in order to increase productivity.
And I thought, because most of us use the software of other developers anyway, to develop our own products. And what if, instead of "copying" each other's software, assuring that we do not do anything bad, we just change licenses among ourselves? After all, this is in my opinion a good idea for creating a small service for developers.
Tell me, would you like to have a service in which you could offer an exchange of software licenses? How do you look at solving problems with licensed software?