Instead, a low voice spoke from her laptop speakers. “I’ve been waiting.”
A map appeared. Dots representing every pirated copy lit up across the globe. But then, red lines connected them.
“Every click you thought was a crack,” Victor’s ghost said, “was a vote. You’ve now cast 15,000 votes—the number of users who generated keys from this program over 15 years.”
Curiosity overriding fear, she clicked.