Not in practice. In practice, everytime you want to take a bite of the banana, you need to log into a web portal and verify you have an active, fully-paid lice

Not in practice. In practice, everytime you want to take a bite of the banana, you need to log into a web portal and verify you have an active, fully-paid license for the banana service. Draconian IP law and the arbitrary fees they enforce are why software makes so much money.