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On the recordMay 15, 2012
I think that the theft of American intellectual property across our cyber networks was the biggest transfer of wealth in the history of the human species through theft and piracy.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse emphasizes the severity of cyber theft impacting American intellectual property.

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