The original post: /r/piracy by /u/Koupers on 2024-12-27 18:08:57.

I help a friend with some of the IT stuff around his office. He relies on cracked copies of Revit 2017. Recently, about 2 months ago. All four copies he has started giving a not-genuine license warning and locking. First time we uninstalled/reinstalled and it lasted a month or so. Second time 2 or 3 weeks. Now it’s first day or so after re-installing.

I searched here and found someone who wrote a batch file to prevent revit from phoning home with his pirate cutlass patch. But when I run that Revit refuses to open saying it has to go online. I’ve tried blocking the other servers and get the same issue. The guy would prefer to remain on revit 2017 because a pair of his PCs are quite old.

Is there anything I could be missing? Also if I want to try something else how do I undo the pirate cutlass batch?