No nazareth, we are not proud of it but then again, I myself have been a victim of this stupid verification issue of MS. I bought genuine windows vista and one fine day it just started saying that it is fake. After much communication between them and me, the issue was resolved.
On the other hand, a $300 software may not be much in US but in Pakistan it is over a salary of a junior young executive and nearly half the salary of what an average person earns after 5-6 years of employment. I am by no means supporting piracy but these companies much realize that in order to eliminate piracy, the product has to be in reach of the consumer.
Lastly, no pointing fingers, Europe and US has one of the highest pirated software downloading ratios
