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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
Irritates me too when people try to pose as health care professionals or freedom fighters to disinfect or liberate their books  They can do what they want IMO but why repeatedly make such a ninny of themselves in public
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I don't understand your point about health car professionals. What do you mean by "disinfect or liberate their books"?
I generally agree with your other points. One area where I don't have a problem with pirating is in developing countries. I posted this passage from a book called
Bad Samaritans awhile back.
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Today, Korea is one of the most inventive nations in the world--it ranks among the top five nations in terms of the number of patents granted annually by the US Patent Office. But until the mid-1980s it lived on reverse engineering. My friends would buy 'copy' computers that were made by small workshops, which would take apart IBM machines, copy the parts, and put them together. It was the same with trademarks. At the time, the country was one of the 'pirate capitals' of the world, churning out fake Nike shoes and Louis Vuitton bags in huge quantities...at the time imported music (LP records) or films (videos) were so expensive that few people could afford the real thing. We grew up listening to pirate rock'n' roll records...As for foreign books, they were still beyond the means of most students...most of my books in English were pirated. I could never have entered and survived Cambridge without those illegal books.
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