Raymond Chen has a ton of "being on the other side of the airtight hatchway" articles.

Most relevant I found: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20200420-00/?p=10...

Probably in this case the installation of the crack requires admin privileges to modify files in "Program Files" folder. Boom, you've broken the rules ;)

This also raises a vulnerability. The author seems convinced this pirated copy is safe because the main binary is signed by Ableton, but there’s no guarantee if there’s a signature check on any of its dependent files (or that the check is not vulnerable or the parsing isn't vulnerable in some way which would allow hijacking the execution flow).

Shared libraries are a scam