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		olkjh on Sept 5, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How UK Government spun 136 people into 7m illegal ... Remember when they used to bust CD pirates and claim there were 1000s of copying machines. They counted a 56x drive as 56 copying devices.

hughprime on Sept 5, 2009 [–]

At the risk of sounding cliched, citation required?

trezor on Sept 5, 2009 | [–]

Sorry. I'm not going to bother digging up a source for this, but if it adds any credibility to his statement I remember this as well.

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