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The agents asked if Xiang Li could get software in addition to what he had listed on CRACK99. "I mean as long as can tell me the name," Li said, "I could find a way to get it ...." Xiang Li asked the agents: "I want to ask a question. … Will customers be able to find me? Will be also contacting
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is not a defense, and pointed the court to a report estimating that China's illegal software market reached $ 9 billion in 2011, out of a total market of nearly $ 12 billion, thus setting a piracy rate of 77 percent. The government emphasized the advanced nature of the software sold by Li and the
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