I have seen those ads, too, and been tempted. What I do when encountering those super low prices is contact the company and ask them, "If I were to contact the software company will they tell me that you are indeed a licensed reseller of their product?" In other words, ask them if they have permission to sell the software... regardless of price. To date I haven't heard back from any of those companies. Someone with a cd burner can make copies of pirated software. Key generators can give them any number of serials to use with their bootlegged copies. It is better to be safe than sorry. If you are caught with pirated software it's bad news and can mean jail time depending on the company catching you. Some adopt a tolerant view, some don't.
If you read any tech mags you'll see articles in them every so often where company X was using pirated software unbeknownst to the users... they thought they just got a good deal.
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