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On the recordApril 26, 2010
I contend that cyber piracy is the biggest transfer, the biggest theft of value in the history of humankind, and we are on the losing end of it.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse emphasizes the severity of cyber piracy as a major threat to America.

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