Sensible option for someone in the west. Wouldn't make sense at all for the ecosystem of digital needs one would want to fulfill in China.
Also, you're thinking of 'pirating' as equating going to the pirate bay, digging through the slew of junk in there, getting a whole bunch of complicated key gen and activation blockers or what not and ending up with a crippled system. Pirated Windows in China is very much a commercially finished product fully packaged as a consumer friendly product that's probably easier to install than vanilla licensed Windows.
Also, you're thinking of 'pirating' as equating going to the pirate bay, digging through the slew of junk in there, getting a whole bunch of complicated key gen and activation blockers or what not and ending up with a crippled system. Pirated Windows in China is very much a commercially finished product fully packaged as a consumer friendly product that's probably easier to install than vanilla licensed Windows.