I did, because I wanted to run multiple copies of it.
The cracked version was running much more smoothly (10x less memory usage) due to missing DRM encryption
My thoughts on it from a decade ago: https://www.forexperiments.com/2012/10/the-price-of-protection.html
This said, most expert advisors programs aren't really functional, need a human supervision. IMHO the devs make more money from the sales/subscriptions of their software than running their "money making machines". After all, if your "completely automated money machine" actually works, why would you bother in paying marketing, DRM schemes to have other people using it?