That posts starts off with "If you're using a pirated copy, i.e. using a pirated key, you will get a popup telling your license is invalid..."
I did NOT receive any such popup/message. Rather, upon receiving an internal database update, I also received the latest program update. I accepted the installation and was surprised to observe that, upon opening MBAM, my PRO version had "degraded" to the Free version. (But only on 1 of 3 systems... the other two behaved normally.)