Software piracy is illegal in most jurisdictions. While companies rarely sue individual end-users, they do pursue "copyright trolls" who distribute cracks. Furthermore, if your cracked software contains stolen corporate data or acts as a bot in a DDoS attack (some malware does this), the legal liability falls on you, the computer owner.

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