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In the early days of educational software, the author of the work got to sell one copy per high school, who then made copies for all the students. Their justification was that "schools cannot afford separate copies" and so they just stole them. Next authors stopped writing educational software at which point the teachers complained that they didn't have any. I said at the time to the teachers who were stealing the material that they should learn how to program and write the courses themselves, giving them to the school system since they knew in advance they were not going to be paid for their effort. I was not surprised when they refused to do that. Everybody lost in that scenario, and it was not until programmers added copy protection AND made site licenses at a reasonable price that any way developed again.
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