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Originally Posted by HarryT
But it's not just large corporations who suffer at the hands of pirates; it's the little guys too, like you and me. I'm constantly finding my software pirated on Usenet, being sold illegally on eBay, etc. I'm sure that your books are pirated, too. Why should you and I have to pay to gain the protection of the law? We are the victims.
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But we are paying, in our higher taxes, to subsidise the large corporations who can easily afford to pay for their own prosecutions. We won't get the same protection for our files as they do because we're not big enough.