True story (But abridged) along similar lines
about 6 years ago, I was doing IT for a manufacturing company in San Diego. They had 3 offices and 2 satellite locations. In total about 18 computers, in diff rooms / physical locations.
Microsoft office - Fully Legit and paid for - Started misbehaving.
After 3 days of calls to microsoft, it sill would not work, and we decided to do a full re-install. Despite having bought the orig discs etc, the SNs would not be accepted. Again, another couple of days of phone calls. No joy.
Solution? I D/L a copy from Pirate bay and intall that instead. No SN needed and the orig issue is resolved.
Never did get to re-install the paid versions. Microsoft stopped returning phone calls.
Piracy (in THIS case) > Legit software
