Adobe will stop auditing licenses

Adobe has announced it will no longer audit software licenses in most parts of the world.
In fact Adobe had already stopped doing this in November 2015 for the bigger geographical markets North America, Japan and Latin America. Europe is next in line. Only for some markets in Asia and Oceania (APAC) will they continue. All this according to Gartner´s research director Stephen White.
The reason for Adobe to stop these audits is the move towards software-as-a-service which is not so vulnerable to piracy and counterfeiting.
Adobe is not alone in this. Oracle and Microsoft have announced similar steps.