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Old 08-02-2012, 12:32 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by halfpint View Post
When the Amiga computer came out you could go to most car boot sales and buy copied games on 3.5 inch disks. I even remember them being advertised in local classified newspapers. And it used to be the same with videos and tapes So I guess that is what they mean. The kids of today download music to thier phones from pirate sites and then give it to all thier mates because to them its cool. Oh and there used to be teenagers who would knock on peoples doors who they knew and sell them copied video cds. It was a very common and regular thing to see about 5-6 years ago amongst neighbours
If it could be copied, it could be pirated. It was just never the threat it was today. Sharing with their mates is going to be 10 to 30. Sharing it on a file locker, how many do you think that is?

Also kids sharing it on CDs and phones, how is that tracked to give accurate figures?

Here's the site. Maybe Damo would like to point us to the part where Torrent Freak got the info from. https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/u...ases/pr_120306
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