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Educating Youngsters About Piracy

Colin Winters writes: "The New York Times has an article that is a follow-up to the recent raid by the government on pirates in universities. Some professors believe that "By the time we get them, they already believe it [piracy]'s right." An interesting read. There's also an interesting bit on how business software is now 1/3 pirated, down from 1/2 in 1995. In America, it's only 24%. From the way companies like Microsoft whine about piracy, I'd assumed the figures were increasing, not decreasing."

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  1. I have to be careful with this one too... by Dead_Smiley · · Score: 5, Offtopic

    because my 10 year old doesn't understand why I can't just make a copy of Pod Racer so we can multiplayer at home.

    Especially since his Mom has warez copies of MS Office on her machine that she uses to writes her papers.

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    I know what the Internet is, what the hell is this Interweb business?!