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Quote:Software piracy, rampant and hampering economic growth, is increasingly performed by organised groups regarded as legitimate businesses in some countries, results of a survey revealed on Thursday.

About 35 per cent of the world's software is pirated...

...a worldwide reduction of software piracy by 10 percentage points to 25 per cent could generate 2.4 million jobs and $400bn of economic growth.

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