I know its expensive. Its expensive for a reason. It takes years of programming, investing and planning. Especially for companies and businesses, always use original license software. Actually, home users should also use original license software. Hacked pirated software are hacked for a reason.
Please see the bigger picture. Save your privacy. I always tell my customers, I will not be held responsible and have advised to use only original license software. If I detected that it is pirated software, I will not do the installation. I will not help nor service problems that related to usage of pirated software. I only sell original license software which I get from authorized distributors and resellers.
Nowadays, even popular or not so popular online shopping website or apps, enables people to post non original software and make it look like original. I sometimes notice people selling branded software like Microsoft or Adobe at 70% to 80% of the original price. I always call on my authorized distributors regarding these prices. If they didn't offer such low prices, there is always a risk of pirated software.
Example: I have a customer that recently bought a software. I do IT servicing for them on a weekly basis. I've been asked to install the software to their company computer. Usually, installing the software is very simple and everything is done online. The usual meaning, need to register an online account, usually is tied to an email address. Then the process of registering the software together with the product key linking to the email address which you have already registered.
However, for this particular software, according to the customer, I need to use the older method of getting a set of alphabetic codes and sending back to the seller for verification and get the authorized code then entered back to register the software. I could not understand why the online activation was cancelled saying the product key provided was already used. Then when I see the instruction manual given to the customer by the seller, it was a step-by-step on how usual pirated software are registered.
I placed a stop. I cannot install the software for the customer. I will not be held responsible for installing pirated software which deemed to look original by the customer. I can only advise the customer that they are installing a pirated software. And I am stern on fact that I will not be involved in that category.
