Sales figures and downloads will provide numbers on sales figures and downloads, not on actually installed data.

On piracy: crack programs simply remove the phone home feature. But a phone home feature will chase away simpler workarounds of like changing one's date&time settings to trick the program on how long it has left on demo times, for instance. So it won't help against "advanced" piracy, but it will against "casual" piracy.

I still think it's not worth the trouble it gives on actual paying customers, but again - I don't have all the intel and knowledge about the entire program and market to know the pros and cons.

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