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I have read all the points on this thread "Zorin pro being pirated."
The only words i wish to add is, My A$approx. 52.00 dollars was my donation to zorin for their hard work, and for this, i downloaded zorin 16 pro.
Thank you for choosing Zorin OS 16 PRO, and for supporting the developers, you are awesome! Now all you gotta do, is go to your profile, and update it to reflect you have Zorin OS PRO. 
YEP, LP-USB, I am going to graduated you to...
LS-USB
Put that in terminal, cool ha? 
Miner variation of your username, = big results in terminal. How about that ha? 20% cooler. 
Let us know how you like Zorin OS 16 PRO with a new thread when you are ready in the Chat About Zorin category. 
I reading today little this long history with piracy.
The author example a book what wrote, writing and selling to people.
The same with software author with copyright can gived this for people for free or want a paying or some donations.
Everything still missing one important things.
Many distribution linux are free. Piracy Zorin 16 Pro for me is stealing product what engineering created - they sacrifice a real life time what can spend with family. Stealing is priority not respectfull and greedy. People who piracy that version for me are some like robots without soul.
The next problems is youtubers what searching a followers for some money. This all channels you can report because only ZorinGroup have copyright and all this channels from youtube must be out. Important for me this forum and people here support ZorinGroup. Share a knowledge and trying help with problems.
It always exist on this word good and bad people. The one wright solution is which side you want stayed. I will be happy if this project Zorin 16 Pro will refund with many buyers. We can talking about piracy but also we can share a wonderfull distribution Zorin 16 Pro. We can show a friends, many things working on it. Zorin 16 Pro for me is simple for older people who don't want a new PC learning difficult new operating system W11. This people are more busy in real life a computer. Bought product gived you warranty and support for next 5 years. Piracy copies could be modification to stealing your privacy or using for digging bitcoin.
Sorry for my bad english.
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It seems the Pro R1 got leaked as well and the hashes are matching 
. The site has been posted earlier by someone in this topic. Such a shame 
Pirate version is a risky call. People need to understand that and stay away from those copies.
People should go with Zorin Core or lite if it is not affordable. I am using Core and this is good.
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If the hashes are matching then what risks do pirates have ? They get the same iso as from the zorin website 
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"Pirate" and "Pirate ship". For the unauthorized use, copying, modification or distribution of published media. For the amusement ride. For other uses, see
The traditional "[Jolly Roger]" of piracy
Piracy is an act of [robbery] or [criminal] [violence] by [ship] or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, while the dedicated ships that pirates use are called pirate ships.
And the best way to spot them, is they will look like this. They will always be drunk, and always be loud, cause they are drunk. They take what they want, and they never give to the poor, but they will make you poorer if you've had items stolen from them.
Youtube some channels are like pirates and websides.
For developers they can first out demo. Then next people who bought get link to good version with some user code number. If sharing somewhere can creating software to blocked updates on future. I don't have image iso with Zorin 16 Pro R4 just only Zorin 16 Pro.
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Actually that is what Core version does 
That could discourage people to share the Zorin Pro iso with others.
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Yeah. It could be psychological tricky - with suprise like kodachi have software inside erase hard disk and you never can used anymore.
This?
I've never heard of it until now.
This not not when a copy get pirated.
Finally, we cannot overlook his ” Panic Room “, or “panic room”. If something goes wrong and our Internet security, privacy or anonymity is compromised, here we will find everything necessary to perform an emergency erase of the hard disk, clean RAM and completely destroy Kodachi. After using these tools, it will be impossible to carry out any type of forensic analysis of the system or find a single byte about us.
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I have question. How people who shared a copy on some websides they know what version is it R1,R2,R3,R4 about a date release? I don't have any this numbers when download i have Zorin 16 Pro.
" The Pro iso files don't have the "-rX .iso" suffix, so anytime you download a copy from our servers it will be the latest release." info from @zorink
Then this is exist versions to download.
It is because the pirates can change the file name anyway they want before submitting/offering to/from the server/Torrent.
I've heard it is one tactics of criminals to evade the authority's scanning radar for sharing illegal contents.
Obviously Zorin's case is not that critical for the pirates. They do not afraid of any legal actions. So they add a suffix to make it even more precise since it is now known that the initial release of Zorin Pro has a bug.
Anyone can read this forum (except for Moderators only and Lev3 + only sections). When we tread about bug and update, so as unregistered pirates.
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