According to press reports, a fourth-year student at a private university, who was arrested late last year for selling pirated software, sought to justify his actions by asserting that since the computer software on the market was very expensive and new versions were always appearing, ordinary students could not afford it; by selling software to fellow students he was not in it for the money, but to help them out.
報載，去年底某私立大學四年級學生被查獲販賣盜版光碟，被捕後理由十足表示，市面上的電腦軟體非常昂貴，而且常更新，一般學生負擔不起，他賣軟體給同學的出發點不是為了牟利，而是為了幫助同學。