It's common to find serial number generators posted online. I just googled "protools serials" and found one. The algorithms to generate them are reverse enginee

It's common to find serial number generators posted online. I just googled "protools serials" and found one. The algorithms to generate them are reverse engineered and published. That's not a very sexy hack but for a dude selling software "fallen off a truck" is how they would do it. However, protools uses a dongle system now (a hard USB key) so I'm not sure that would work, but the serial gen method would apply for other audio products. But I question the premise here. A box of protools already has the serial to activate it. Do you know they track the boxes and can label them as stolen? The cost to protools to make an individual box of software is probably less than a dollar.