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> It was an absolute pain to purchase and it seems that a large portion of their margins are dedicated to piracy control

I know what you mean. I tried to purchase it and got this email:

  Dear Sir/Madam,

  Thank you for your order. Please could you send a copy of your passport and fill out the attached form? Our compliance policy now requires this.  
  Many thanks
  Hex-Rays SA

I used a cracked copy after that.

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It used to be worse under Pierre. His personal mission in life was to make sure no one dodgy ever got a license and to hunt down every possible source of a cracked copy. My manager had purchased a license for me because it was cheap enough that he could approve it… a year later I tried to renew by emailing Pierre about it. He never replied, instead he contacted my manager to tell him that the license was being pirated and blah blah blah. Was very annoying to sort out.

Amen. I had a 10-email back-and-forth exchange with Ilfak maybe 10 years ago - multiple times I said "I'm literally begging you to take my money, you don't seem to want it." I am self-employed, we were on the phone with each other in real time, and when I placed with order (with my home address) he said, "Oh, nice home, according to the pictures on Zillow and Google Maps". He sounded like he was trying to startle me, ha ha nice try Ilfak.

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