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It was illegal but nothing ever got enforced out of my own experience.

• akho 5y ago
  It was enforced for businesses. I don’t think it’s enforced for private users anywhere.
  • Gigachad 5y ago
    Most countries go after distribution which has been somewhat successful.
  • 5560675260 5y ago
    It was enforced selectively (as many laws there) with occasional arrests of freelance computer technicians. They would be asked to do a minor repair and then install pirated versions of Windows, MS Office, Autocad etc to reach a certain threshold after which it would be qualified as an "economic crime on a particularly large scale".
  • kemitchell 5y ago
    There was a period in the late 1990s and early 2000s when foreign vendors tried to the RIAA/MPAA tactic of highly publicized enforcement against individuals and small institutions. Microsoft, for example. It mostly backfired. They eventually shifted to enforcing against large entities and intermediaries. Same as in the West.