A web hosting firm I once did business with had figured out a way to spoof the license for their (third party) control panel platform. They gave themselves lic

A web hosting firm I once did business with had figured out a way to spoof the license for their (third party) control panel platform. They gave themselves licenses for whole factors more physical servers than they ran, just in case, I guess. I found out about it when an employee sent me a screenshot while troubleshooting an issue with me. This was probably 15 years ago now.