High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com)

Ernesto Van der Sar, writing for TorrentFreak (edited and condensed): There are hundreds of reasons why people may turn to piracy. A financial motive is often mentioned, as well as lacking legal alternatives. A new study from a group of researchers now suggests that national intelligence can also be added to the list. In a rather straightforward analysis, the research examined the link between national IQ scores and local software piracy rates -- from data provided by the Business Software Alliance. They concluded that there's a trend indicating that countries with a higher IQ have lower software piracy rates.

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Re:Meaningless

[smooth wombat]

from a better educated population being able to afford to buy software, as opposed to having to illegally copy it.

Or that their intelligence leads them to understand that not compensating someone for the work they did is not a moral thing to do.

But please, go ahead and make excuses for why stealing is acceptable.