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Now you could take the Pollyanna viewpoint that most people have valid, upstanding licenses for their systems, and the anti-piracy software would work just perfectly and your system would continue to work. Or you could take the more realistic approach and say that license management is difficult and costly and that some of your software may not be licensed perfectly (although most of your software is) and only some of your software will stop working. Or you can take "maddog's Approach Of Least Pollyanna" (mOLP) and say "even if I try to have fully licensed software, my boss is going to think I am crazy to install this, and if I do I am a toad."

Well yes, most copies, in the US at least are legal copies. But look at it from a cost benefit standpoint. Why would I do something that cannot possibly benefit me but will benefit Microsoft, for free? So the legal users have no incentive to install it, maybe a disincentive if you count tone deafness on the part of the authors, and illegal users have a huge disincentive. Why would they even field this?