Piracy worked for us, says Romanian President

Written by Ernesto on February 02, 2007 

The Romanian President told Bill Gates during a news conference that Piracy helped to set off the development of the IT sector in Romania.

romania flagPresident Basescu said, “Piracy helped the young generation discover computers. It helped Romanians improve their creative capacity in the IT industry, which has become famous around the world … Ten years ago, it was an investment in Romania’s friendship with Microsoft and with Bill Gates.”

Gates, co-founder and chairman of Microsoft did not comment on the statements of the Romanian President.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) estimates that 74% of the software used in Romania is pirated. The widespread use of pirated software is one of the main reasons for the flourishing software sector in Romania. Paradoxally, according to the BSA, Romania’s IT sector could add 7,300 jobs to their emerging software sector if it can reach a 10 percent drop in its 74 percent software piracy rate.

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7 Responses

1 Feb 02, 2007 at 14:55 by bggoth

Check with the pawn. ;)

2 Feb 06, 2007 at 07:47 by morpher

we **ck legally software. we are romanians, and we h8 all what is legally. anyway, B. Gates, is a l00s3r. Linux has been first, and some @$$h0|3s like b. gates, has take the idea. well.. CRACKERS RULES!!!

3 Feb 09, 2007 at 04:55 by Proxynel

In curand Romanii ii vor lasa de caruta pe Indieni in domeniul informaticii.
Software-ul este enorm de scump comparativ cu veniturile Romanilor.
Nea Bill Gates a fost zilele trecute in Bucuresti speriat de pirateria informatica din Romania.
Este totusi un tip de bine si sant convins ca ajuta Romania mai mult decat isi inchipuie unii.
Apropos… se pare ca nu mai prea sant evrei in Romania.
Sper sa nu se interpreteze cele de mai sus pentru ca nu este cazul deoarece sant cetatean Canadian si traiesc in Montreal.

4 Jun 10, 2007 at 08:37 by н

Люди которое сегодня мешают молодому поколению свободно пользоваться софтуером позже надо будет судить за нанесен ущерб наций как преступники .

5 Dec 31, 2007 at 21:25 by Anonymous

Romania ftw for hosting torrent sites in 2008? =P

6 Jan 03, 2008 at 08:37 by x

nope, we have laws.

7 Jan 22, 2008 at 00:42 by equi

it’s good that the new romanian generation is growing up not giving a fu*k about the legality of file sharing. here the police arrests mostly pirates, not file sharers (slight difference, at least for me). People refusing to use file sharing networks because of their legality are so rare that i haven’t met one, but i get the feeling that if such people exist in romania, they would be considered big time losers :D

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