Han was able to steal the ship away from its captain, Oxus, by faking a reactor overload, causing everybody but him, Chewbacca and Montross to flee the ship.
It is worth mentioning that in that 1975 second draft, George Lucas had written a scene in which Han Solo was serving onboard an unnamed TDF104 pirate ship along with his fellow crewmate Chewbacca and space pirates Montross Holdaack and Jabba the Hutt. Pirates, by contrast, are mostly bandits, thieves and criminals and sometimes associated with bounty hunters. Without going too deep, smugglers move illicit goods in or out somewhere. There is also a drawing and hand writing of George Lucas in a yellow legal pad paper describing her as a pirate ship, a moniker that it would carry throughout most of development of the ship until finally being renamed as Millennium Falcon, a smuggling ship, but, there is a big difference between smugglers and pirates. In the Star Wars canon, despite her description as a “modified Corellian YT-1300 light freighter most famously used by the smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca during the Galactic Civil War”, the Millennium Falcon was first mention as a pirate ship in the second draft of the script Adventures of the Starkiller as taken from the Journal of the Whills, Saga I: The Star Wars (that would become the script for A New Hope), dated January 1975.
But along with her design, her purpose also appears to have changed from a pirate ship to a freighter ship. It is for all of us known that the Millennium Falcon design evolved along constant conceptual modifications and upgrades before her final iconic shaped emerged. While reading some Cinefantastique magazines from late 70s that contained interviews of the production crew of Star Wars: A New Hope, I noticed that some of the interviewees like Jon Berg (special-effects artist) and Joe Johnston (effects illustrator and designer) among others, referenced to Han Solo’s spacecraft as a pirate ship.
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