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Radio show cries foul on '7 million pirates' claim in UK

article published on 4 September, 2009

When a recent report from the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property - a UK government advisory board - claimed seven million people in the UK use file sharing for illegal downloading, the news made headlines. Part of the attention given to the figure came from the 85 page report's estimated billions in economic losses and thousands of job losses each year due to illegal downloading. ... [ read the full article ]

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Tristan_2
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_ 		4. September 2009 @ 23:50 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
This is a very interesting read I'm kinda speechless on this
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wabashman
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_ 		5. September 2009 @ 02:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well going by their figures, everyone that owns a computer is a pirate as every person i know has downloaded something some time, somewhere in some way shape or form. what a bunch of retards making up numbers.
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KillerBug
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_ 		5. September 2009 @ 03:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Sounds like the BS they use for suspected drug users:

Do you smoke weed?
Yes = Yes
No = Yes, but won't admit it

Do you download illigaly?
Yes = Yes
No = Yes, but won't admit it

Did you have sexual relations with that women?
Can you define the word "is"?
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beanos66
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_ 		5. September 2009 @ 06:35 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
think of a really big number, double it , round it up to the nearest million then if you think the number is to small start again by thinking of an even bigger number. eventually you will end up with a number you're happy with. Then! you can feed that number to some thieving politician(
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everything I did was within the rules"
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cart0181
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_ 		6. September 2009 @ 14:57 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Mark Mulligan, what the F is the matter with you?
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