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Aug 19 2002

Bangkok Software Pirates Back

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Driven out in a crackdown earlier this year, traders selling pirated music, software and X-rated movies have returned to Pantip Plaza, a chaotic, packed shopping center in downtown Bangkok.

“We are far from being able economically to buy copyright products since the prices are ridiculously expensive,” a pirate CD hawker in Pantip Plaza told Reuters. “If we pay 20,000 baht for a set of computer equipment, we will have to pay another 30,000 baht for legitimate software programs, which is outrageous.”
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