I don't know what the deal is in Russia but in Argentina piracy is rampant but Microsoft has been ruthless and they have done stuff it would make your skin craw

I don't know what the deal is in Russia but in Argentina piracy is rampant but Microsoft has been ruthless and they have done stuff it would make your skin crawl. Microsoft basically has power of police here. I don't know who they bribed or in exchange of what or how they managed to achieve this. They go for companies, basically they send you an email and ask you about your infrastructure, licenses and tell you on X day we will be there to audit the software licenses that you are using. This is not optional, this is mandatory. You have to let them in since they will come with cops if necessary. We have dealt with them sadly, but we are a linux only shop so we made abundtantly clear that we were going to fight until the end to make them accountable and bill them dearly for every second they spent here. After a few back and forths they decided it wasn't necessary to audit our company, probably not because of our indisposition, but because they probably realized we weren't lying and there was no money to collect here. To add insult to injury they will use these emails to offer you Microsoft Teams. It's insane. I cannot wish them ill enough.