Denuvo (anti-cheat software and borderline malware) offers their software to videogame companies on a licensing mode, which means companies have to pay periodically to continue using it. That has led to lots of games having Denuvo at release date, but then removing it some years down the line (when piracy isn’t a big threat to their revenues)

No luck catching them killers, then?

“Malapropism”, maybe, depending on the context? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapropism