Are student software license restrictions actually enforced? How?

I’m about to graduate this semester and since I’m an animation student I was seriously thinking about getting some expensive animation/production software while I can still get a good discount. But a lot of the software licenses they sell specify that they can’t be used for commercial work. Could they actually nail me for freelancing with student licensed software? How would they ever know?

I’m thinking of products along the lines of Zbrush, Maya and Adobe Creative Suite.