Howdy there, neighbour. The point is that in your (our ?) case piracy is not sanctioned (except in case of big companies) because it is considered as an investment, a necessary evil, if you wish. You don't have money to pay for it now, but if you get hooked, at some point in time when you WILL have money, it will be all that much easier to convince you to pay a legalization fee than for you to switch away to a different product. Imagine how successful this is on company scales - you don't sue/threat someone when it has two copies of windows. You wait for him to get big and fat, with dozens or hundreds of server and client licenses. THEN you go and say 'hello, we're BSA', putting them between the choice of changing the whole company infrastructure or 'just' paying a (comparably) smaller sum and be over with it. It's legalized extortion, really, as they very well know who is using their products but are wilfully ignoring that information to maximize future profits (it's almost as drug dealers giving drugs to kids at schools 'for free').

However, wasn't there an effort in Macedonia to switch the schools to open source solutions (like edubuntu) ? That, in fact, might contribute to lowering piracy way more than any law.