A thousand bucks in a license is a scam! I worked in a software office and there the marketer originally solved the problem of piracy and increasing sales - he persuaded the bosses to throw a pre-release beta with glucs and some shortcomings on torrents (without specifying this, of course) and in the agreement to indicate the information about the premium.
Is it necessary to say that in the official version there was nothing like this, but those who read this - ran to buy the license, because. In principle, it should have been more...