Suspected pirate gang nabbed by feds

Pleasure, not profit, motivated the group of hackers in theft of software, games and movies, investigators say.

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Who cares

It is questionable if any money is lost from piracy. A lot of money is lost from violent crime.

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Profit loss from piracy questionable

Most people I have seen who either download or use illegle copyrighted software would not ever have bought it anyway. Perhaps the shareware method works best, but only with un-crippled software. Go ahead, let me have all the bells and whistles for a month... If your software is good enough and meets my needs I might buy it. If not I have saved TONS of money and the heartache of having bought software that stinks!

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pirates?

are pirates not people who sail on boats,have a wooden leg,a patch on their eye and a parrot on their shoulder ? i thought so come on you guys start busting real criminals like Osama Bin Laden then youll make progress leave us white neck computer geeks alone we do nothing wrong guess this just goes to show that money is more important than human lives huh