Forget about counter-sued, this is a criminals matter. One for which you can earn hard time. Even if you don't use the spyware. I wouldn't dare work for a comp

Forget about counter-sued, this is a criminals matter. One for which you can earn hard time. Even if you don't use the spyware. I wouldn't dare work for a company that did this. Copyright violation is merely a civil matter, cracking a serial number generator is not even copyright violation. Breaking DRM is still illegal, but that's all. I'm not even sure we've established that's it's illegal to distribute information on how to crack DRM. Certainly, not in all jurisdictions.