I think it's a great way to get the point across. Personally, it always makes me smile when Elodie calls out a pirate asking for help on the forum.
By making ownership a barrier to the community of legitimate users, we can at least increase the sort of value that can't simply be downloaded from a torrent site. The way I see it, helping someone use pirated software is just enabling their choice. When they couldn't show me an email from the team, I switched to teaching the lesson using Synfig instead. When it became clear they were using a cracked version (because they did not have a dongle plugged in), I asked for some proof that they actually owned a copy (it seems that half the TVPaint users I know use cracked copies even if they have a license). I was once in a similar situation, giving a lesson to someone who told me they owned a copy of TVPaint.
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