I used to purchase mp3s from Amazon, and there was one song that had a glitch in it, like it was a bad rip. I always wondered if they were using pirated copies as well. I just re-downloaded for fun and the glitch is still there.
It wouldn't surprise me if e.g. people at Microsoft ran pirated copies of Office or whatever. Or like Photoshop at Adobe. Getting hold of licenses can be a nightmare, and Microsoft products more so in the past. Nowadays, every Microsoft license seems handled by some enterprise admin account.
I can speak for Adobe- Adobe employees have work accounts with full access to the Adobe suite, an internal web portal to get annual free licenses for their personal accounts, and an internal web store to purchase heavily discounted licenses to gift to friends and family. No one within Adobe is pirating Photoshop.
Anecdotally, I had a friend at Microsoft hook me up with discount Windows OEM licenses for my PC builds and it seemed similarly easy to get licenses.
