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The benefits of piracy?

by Iain Thomson

02 Feb 2007

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Interestingly, the President of Romania has told Bill Gates that computer piracy had helped his country to develop an IT industry.

Apparently, without piracy, most kids would not have got interested in computers. Almost three quarters of Romanian software is still pirated though...

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