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| Time: 06:13 EST/11:13 GMT | News Source: ComputerWorld | Posted By: Chris Hedlund | ||
I'm not a big fan of people who use pirated software, and I have managed in the course of my online life never to have shared or downloaded a song or movie. But does this make me more ethical than the 43% of the British public who admitted that they own counterfeit goods, or the 23% who said they willingly have bought pirated software? I don't know. It just seems to make me confused, because I find myself on the side of a mega-multinational software vendor in its defense of intellectual property rights, even as I find myself doubting its claims that pirated software means lost revenue for the U.K. government. According to Microsoft, when those Britons buy pirated software, it's not just the company that suffers; no, the British government and all that it supports are hurt, too, because no taxes are paid. This seems reasonable enough, but there's more to it than that, as I'll explain. | ||
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