Malwarebytes offers pirates and duped customers 12 months of its premium antimalware product for free
Found on Venture Beat on Tuesday, 30 June 2015
If you pirated Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, purchased a counterfeit version of the software, or are having problems with your key in general, the company is offering a free replacement key.
Malwarebytes wants to revamp its licensing system because the current one is outdated and doesn’t properly keep track of legitimate customers. In the process, the company is hoping to convince those who paid for an existing key or who didn’t pay at all to go legit by giving away a one-year subscription.
Piracy rates of Malwarebytes might just skyrocket now. In the end it does not cause any problems for them: piracy installs otherwise still would exist, so the amnesty does not make a difference there; but it might indeed convince some to pay for future upgrades.