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I am researcher and I never think about this. Of course the specialties can be different and I imagine the most of you work in spatial things but not only that, more specifically in physical geography, I am geographer but work with social aspects. but if We see the main aspect in this topic We see a big, big problem if We are thinking in that; any cracked program you use to do the research, even the word processor, spreadsheet, unpacker, the operating system, must have the same relevance over research. If that is the situation no more research for us, because in some or a lot of cases maybe We can pay for license, but no buy shoes, food, water, etc for a time. For me that is nonsense, because the idea in research is find new knowledge, ideas, procedures and that is the significant We need to see. But if you think that is important, if you have a license or not and that is a requirement in Published standards, definitely yo can´t do research. And in that case try to write, calculate, execute the program and run the simulator, where is a licensed software, to meet the requirements that "System" claims, not the science (if this even is valid to) if you discover something new with or without license that is a discover and no matter if this was with a paid license or not, that is my opinion.

there are countries that dont cover these laws for plagiarism, software piracy etc. made by other countries who owned the soft, so if you live in one of those you dont need to worry bout such thing as using pirated softs for your studies. i wouldnt suggest about publishing anything though, unless your school owned a proper license for that particular software you are using as pirated copy. in the mining industry we usually let the company buy one proper license with only the modules needed for publishing reports on the reports,market, stocks, and website, the rest of us users in the company use pirated copies of the software bought, these type of setup usually get anyone under safe grounds on publishing anything. these usually are the norm nowadays in our industry since these softs are really overpriced for a regular joe to purchase one. $5000 for a limited core modules? yeah right

Hi mate, OK, I have to rephrase my sentence.. You can write all articles that you want only if they are free, simply because you are using a software with a non "official" license but if you can claim that you have used a trial version then you can expect to earn money. darksabersan.

Hi msig000, Your question is very relevant. There are several aspects to consider. If after the publication your article, you earn money, then you are in illegally and you may have some rights issues. In the other side, if it's only an article study or a publication analysis result made​​, then it is possible to do so without risk. As also said jcarcamo, you can also play the card that you are using a trial version. I take the example of the Ussein Nasser book that is the author of PacktPub Editor "Learning ArcGIS geodatabases" and "Administering ArcGIS Server" in which he uses evaluation versions. Anyway, earning money from crack app is not a good idea. Hope that our point of you help you to take your decision. darksabersan.