Reminds me of a company I did work for a little while back. They needed to get a second computer set up for their marketing people as the old one was simply too old. When the new machine arrived asked me to get the Adobe disc from one of the peopler in the marketing department, as she had bought it herself a year or two back. Uh.... okay, that sounds kind of funny as it was for the full llustrator/Bells and Whistles suite and an employee bought it for themselves to run on a company machine? Turns out that she had gotten the whole thing for ~$60 "totally legit, it has a code". Of course, you couldn't activate it through Adobe's process, instead there was a phone number to call and give them the number from the hand-printed sticker inside the CD case and they would give you instructions on what to enter for activation. And to nobody's surprise (well, except apparently theirs) the numebr given was disconnected, probably long-since. Explaining this to the office manager was kind of fun. "Yeah, we're gonna have a problem here. This software isn't going to be able to activate, you're just going to have x number of days and then it'll shut down on you." "Well why, just put in the code" "No, like I said was probably the case when you initially told me the whole thing, this is at best a gray area as far as being legit software goes, and that's a huge stretch.You're just going to have to fork out the cash for a full version of the software you've been using for basically nothing all this time" "Okay, so it'll be what, another $60-70, right?" "...." "that's what she said it cost her" "Yeah, let's just go back to that whole 'pirated' thing and then move on, shall we? Here's a link to what you have on CDW (they had a corporate account and would buy anything they could from there unless I could find mountain-moving arguments to use other vendors), you can get this package here for ~$600 (or whatever the Adobe price was, it's been a while. Just call it staggering), and that will let you do what you have been doing" "Uh.... we'll run it as a demo and get back to you". Sigh. Love seeing coporate pirating, right? And they seem so shocked when you suggest that just *maybe* that deal they got was in fact too good to be true.