^ this is an interesting topic. From the stories I have heard, there are lots of companies some very large who uses cracked torrented MAYA and 3DS MAX etc.
Due to the enormous cost of Autodesk’s products very few people can afford it. I am not sure how they are going to know that people used a student version to create their work. How can they possibly know this? after it has been placed into a game?
It also seems odd that we have never heard of a case where Autodesk actually sued someone for using a student version of MAYA to build a game. I have never heard of such a case hmm.
But then look how easy a student copy is to obtain? whats stopping anyone from using it? I am willing to bet 70% of games on google store for android is either made with a pirated autodesk modeler or a student copy