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Re:A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China by jbb555 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @11:10AM (#12218488)
" teaching myself how to pirate and use complicated software was just par for the course."

So an article by a self confessed criminal. I didn't read past that.

Re:A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China by cvik on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @01:12PM (#12219586)
Why do you assume this was illegal in Sweden in the late nineties? In Sweden, downloading of IP was illegalized 2005-06-01. Before that it was only illegal to spread digital IP...
Re:A Swede Returns to Silicon Valley from China by jernfrost on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @03:39PM (#12220855)
Didn't you know, American laws are universal. It is by American laws we judge the acts of all the being in this universe.