I wonder if the publisher even knew, or could ever know. It's presumably hard* to work out the counterfactual - how many more sales would have been made in the

I wonder if the publisher even knew, or could ever know. It's presumably hard* to work out the counterfactual - how many more sales would have been made in the absence of the crack/keygen being available. They do mention that they kept seeing repeated personal information being used on registration, but also that the cracked version was changed to use a different activation server. Confusing. *or even impossible