The original post: /r/piracy by /u/Sportfreunde on 2025-01-06 20:36:15.

Trying to set up Autocad/Solidworks for someone, both programs known for phoning home and people often getting legal threats.

I do plan to try to whitelist everything through a firewall for them but wondering if a safer/easier option is to just use a VPN like Proton to help with this or if it would be able to identify the legit location/IP even with the VPN on at all time?