You can at least see a difference from casually downloading pirated Cadence soft from Chinese FTPs =D. But saying this, you think would anybody there decide to

You can at least see a difference from casually downloading pirated Cadence soft from Chinese FTPs =D. But saying this, you think would anybody there decide to pay $1M just to order few hundred Cadence licenses (and this is on the low end,) when they can not to with zero consequences? This is more than the total capital of most semiconductor companies there. I'd say people doing that have different aims. They "grew out" of pirated Cadence, and now want more serious tools like ones custom made Cadence makes for top tier clients like Intel, Apple, NVidia, and AMD.