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Old 18-03-10, 11:20 AM   #1 (permalink)
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A study commissioned by Business Action to Stop Counterfeiting and Piracy (BASCAP) claims that illegal downloads will cost Europe, and particularly the UK, dearly in the near future. With some hard hitting headline figures, the report says that by 2015, 1.2 million jobs will be lost across Europe due to piracy. And a quarter of a million [...]

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Ballcocks, they would say that, it is in their interests to make such an outlandish claim. Run up the Jolly Roger I say and lets all set sail on the great ocean of FS.

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