I sounds more like Waves is trying to scare studio owners that use pirated software, and hoping they are gonne buy their stuff by spreading these rumours.
I've seen it on a few forums lately, including this one, that a new member appears with a post explaining that he had been conacted by a attorney and had to pay x-amount to Waves for using pirated software. The way they do it ain't even legal!!!
They learned a few tricks from the US governement, who are also verry good at scaring people!
To me it just shows that Waves is a bad companey who will do anything to sell their products...
Sill, if you want to use your plugs, you should buy them!
I must say, when i was 12 i also copied the new AC/DC record to cassette from a friend of mine. Hope that AC/DC doesn't come to my house asking if i have a copy left because they lost the masters... I'm gonne burn it straight away, you'll never know...
In the end,
Waves .