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IT analyst pilot fish buys a new PC, and it turns out that a key application fish uses won't load -- and the newest version of the software is subscription-based.
"I opted to buy physical software online instead -- new, in box, shrink-wrapped and everything," says fish. "I registered the new software and was very happy that it registered with the vendor and worked just fine.
"Fast forward more than a year. Suddenly, a pop-up began to appear every time the software was launched, warning that the software was illegal, though it still worked."
Fish is skeptical about how seriously to take this. After all, it's been working for a year. They couldn't have figured it out when fish registered the product in the first place? Or when fish activated it a second time after a hard drive replacement?
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