I'm not sure about Wilco. This is what really annoys me about online activations though. If a developer or vendor goes under, the installers are rendered useless. When FSStore went under I lost a whole heap of airports as they used FSStore's Wrapper activation system, and a few developers refuse to provide a solution. Then there are other developers who put limited activations on their products, and then decide to require a reactivation there is any sort of minor update made to the simulator, even a point update. Sometimes they just seem to require an reactivation if you haven't used the aircraft for a while.
I can guarantee the pirates aren't having so much difficulty getting their sceneries and aircraft to work.