When the licensing service fails during normal installation, a manual clean re-installation of the licensing component is highly recommended.
"I saw the file flash on the black market this morning. Version 9.2. They say it patches the neural link between the user and the City Core. The megacorps think it's just a licensing update, but if you run it in a sandboxed virtual environment and input the Konami code during the checksum verification, it doesn't ask for a product key. It asks for a target." Adsklicensing-installer-9.2.exe