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by Avery3R 3199 days ago
If a database was created using an instance of IDA that was running on a known blacklisted key you'll get a "Sorry, you can't open this database because it was created using a pirated version of IDA" message, and if you try to open a database that's missing the license info you'll get a "Database is corrupt." message. It's still pretty easy to patch out these messages and open the databases anyways though.

There's also a map [1] on the old IDA website showing geolocated IPs of users that tried to request updates using pirated keys.

[1] http://www.datarescue.com/idabase/