The more likely scenario, at least in the US, is that if your business is already using some legit licensed software from the same publisher, the publisher invo

The more likely scenario, at least in the US, is that if your business is already using some legit licensed software from the same publisher, the publisher invokes a contractual right to audit licenses at your business. They find a bunch of unlicensed copies, and send you a huge bill. No police, just a civil matter, but potentially very expensive for the business. When I still did systems engineering work (2001-2011), I personally saw Microsoft conduct a license audit. No one in the organization was using pirated software, but we still got a big bill because the reseller we bought licenses from misrepresented what some of those licenses covered. In that case, MS was willing to chalk it up to an honest mistake as long as we uninstalled the software from the systems that the licenses didn't cover. I doubt they'd have been willing to do that if we'd been running actual cracked versions of their products.