I can't disagree, although pricing models in the industry were a bit insane comparing 1:1 today with the 'don't pirate' site that deep discount a lot of premium

I can't disagree, although pricing models in the industry were a bit insane comparing 1:1 today with the 'don't pirate' site that deep discount a lot of premium plug-ins. That said, there was a non-negligible amount of studio owners who had licenses but chose to use cracked versions of software stripped of DRM or otherwise bypassing the security checks in favour of maintaining stability. Lot of BSODs and IRQ issues with competing dongles with bad serial implementation.