As someone who was recently laid off, and is up to my eyeballs in money troubles, trust me I know. I was fortunate to get my gear at a time when things were going well and before a bunch of unforeseen circumstances such as having structural damage to the house, my wife having to go on disability leave and take a 55% pay hit and then having a car accident and getting screwed over by the insurance company on the payout and having the rates get whacked up even though I wasn't technically at fault and having to take out a loan on a replacement car (the old one was fully paid up and only 6 years old) - life can throw you curveballs and suck ass sometimes.
I wasn't questioning the morality of running copied/warezed software, that's a personal decision, but just informing you that a lot can be done for very little, and there's a lot of free stuff which really punches above it's weight and sounds great. Peace
) then he installed some cracked VSTs as he can't afford the real thing a few of the VSTs don't work but worked for him as he had Vista 
installed, now he's well fucked off 
. Have Microsoft thrown some kind of code or something into Win7 that detects those kind of things?
Fuck knows? 