And that's, in part, why every IC shop I checked in China ran off decade old warezed Cadence EDAs.
Who could've knew that warez market exists even for such rare, pretty much custom made software for which there are less than <100 licensors in the world.
This caused major problems for the WAN between ASML headquarters in Eindhoven and the remote offices in those Asian countries.
The difference is that in the US enough licenses are used to pay for the "average" number of users, while overseas it's zero.
And frankly, if the big EDA tools companies actually fixed and improved their software instead of milking it for decades, legit US clients would care more than they do now.
For those who haven't had the pleasure, most EDA products are like buying a boxed Windows in 2021 and they turn out to actually be Win 3.1 - no exaggeration.