Depends who you ask. Also some sites use a SaaS model with API key for back-end access. They claimed license keys were stolen. “Last year we had some serious problems after someone obtained a huge list of license keys and downloaded all of our products. The keys and files were then distributed on their file sharing site, which has since been taken down (not by us, ironically!). The drop tables function was put in place to try to stop this at the time.”