Claim: Adrian Chmielarz was pushed by a desire to buy a computer with his own money and earned financial sustainability by traveling 40 miles each day to sell bootleg foreign films on VHS tapes.
Evidence: Chmielarz was pushed by a desire to buy a computer with his own money, knowing that his parents had been forced into the black market to "put food on the table". In 1987, Chmielarz earned financial sustainability by traveling 40 miles each day to sell bootleg foreign films on VHS tapes, copied from a friend at a bazaar in Wrocław (such type of copyright infringement was not illegal in Poland until 1994).