I resold Avast through my small consultancy for a few years, and I don't think they're the type of company that would actually litigate against their users. The

I resold Avast through my small consultancy for a few years, and I don't think they're the type of company that would actually litigate against their users. Their free product is very good. The compelling reasons to go pro matter most to businesses, who are usually happy to pay for a license/support anyway. I am somewhat disappointed that they withheld the single most interesting statistic to come out of the whole experiment. The debate over what percentage of pirates would actually buy the software they pirate is a long standing open argument in the industry. This would have been a rare datapoint. Something tells me that "the industry" doesn't want those stats out in the open.