: Using or distributing unlicensed software is a breach of copyright law and can lead to civil lawsuits with substantial monetary damages, or even criminal charges resulting in up to 5 years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 .
: Unauthorized modifications to the software's code often lead to frequent crashes and permanent data loss.
However, as she began to use the software extensively, Emily started to notice some inconsistencies. The OCR accuracy was indeed better, but the patch seemed to have introduced occasional glitches. Sometimes, the software would freeze or produce garbled output. Emily tried to troubleshoot the issues, but they persisted.