Pirated Vista Dirt Cheap on Latin American Streets
Armando Tovar writes for Reuters:
Days after a beaming Bill Gates unveiled his much-vaunted Windows Vista software at a retail price of $400 for the premium version, Latin American street vendors are hawking pirate copies for under $10.More here.
At a sidewalk stall in Mexico City's grimy historic center, vendor Jose Luis offloaded cut-price copies of the software that cost Microsoft Corp. $6 billion to bring to market.
"Man, whatever it is, we get it damn quick here," he said, taking two bootleg DVDs at 100 pesos ($9) each out of a fake Puma backpack and slipping them into a plastic bag.
Hey! Send that kid to a gulag in Siberia!
posted by Fergie @ 2/06/2007 01:00:00 PM
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