Too bad, the attorneys tell you. You should have conducted periodic, exhaustive audits of all your computers, they tell you. Everything grinds to a halt. The audit takes days, and you and your employees must perform it yourselves. Your customers are screaming at you.
Bills go unpaid.
You're losing so much money, you're worried about not making payroll. And at the end, they're demanding a six-figure settlement. Your business nearly goes under. The list goes on. But it's all too easy to violate commercial software licenses unintentionally.