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"Furthermore, the global average piracy rate for PC software in 2010 was 42 percent, the second-highest figure in the eight years the BSA has been conducting its worldwide study. Piracy rates are considerably higher in some developing markets, including averages of 60 percent in the Asia Pacific region, and 64 percent in Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. And the BSA believes one of the reasons piracy is so widespread is that many users of pirated software don't actually understand that they're stealing."

"Walk out of a store with a DVD shoved up your jumper and it's a clear-cut case of theft. Disagree? Tell it to the judge. Yet the digital revolution makes it easy to obtain a copy of a movie without depriving the owner of the original. So does copying equal theft? As someone who is not without sin I'm reluctant to cast the first stone, but I've never tried to kid myself that copying content isn't wrong. Everyone seems to draw their own line in the sand. "

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