Pirated software is okay for home users, but in a mission critical business context, you need constant support and security updates. Pirated software, by its nature, will not be as secure as official software, and it will not be as up to date. Also who do you call when you need support?

Basically pirated software is not a solution for mission critical businesses.

Also who do you think is cracking the software? The same people who would find it very easy to put in malware into the software.

If Russia is running on pirated software, it will be a nightmare.

They need to get off Western software and push open source alternatives. they are massively inferior, especially in the B2B software side of things, but so be it. This is what Russia needs to do now.