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Story: BSA 'piracy' report dismissed as scaremongering

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Posted by: Arthur B. (Monday 23 May 2005, 11:13 PM)

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Normally companies who seriously overcharge for their products and services either go out of business, improve or lower their prices. Not so for software companies (who already are overprotected to the extreme by laws and what not) who gratefully sponsor vicious bloodhounds like the BSA to find and exploit whatever legal loophole they can find while lobbying one ignorant politician after the other to turn their very one-sided vision of the economic workings of the world into law as well.

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