I think that most have missed the point.  When companies start throwing out answers to the wrong question is is a smoke screen.  Possibly the person delivering the smoke is a poorly educated person in some other country where the wages are a few dollars a week so that person really believes it is the correct answer.

Or maybe they know and are part of the  scheme.

At one time it was very easy to "loan" your friend a software installation program and that friend now was using a software that you paid for.  Maybe that friend also did the same and again and again until one license was being used by dozens of people. 

All companies are currently trying to find ways to enforce licensing and upgrades.

Another thing about software was that a person could purchase a software and install it and never have to pay again as long as the operating system never upgraded to a point where that software would no longer function.

IT IS ALL ABOUT MONEY AND BELIEVE ME, IT IS NOT ABOUT YOUR MONEY or protecting you.

It is about brutally forcing people to pay and pay and pay again when duped into thinking that they were actually purchasing a software product. 

It is about identifying what ip addresses that software is being used from and very likely the name or other identifying information about the actual computer that is running it. 

They do not care about you.  They care about being certain they have the means to go after criminal software abusers and also about forcing every person to pay and pay and pay instead of exercising the option to continue using an older version that was paid for in full.

Obviously no company is in business to actually help customers.  It is in business to extract money from customers only.  Once we understand that then we can see that the only options are use it or use something else  OR carefully examine the situation and if it is discovered that some law has been broken in their obviously BAD WILL gesture of "PAPERS PAPERS PLEASE SHOW YOUR PAPERS AND GIVE MORE MONEY. "

If that can not be proven then the choices are use it or do not use it.