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« High street sales shows continued weakness | Main | Netscape 8 final released » May 20, 2005Study claims high use of pirate software among businesses
A report released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and IDC, a technology research organization, has claimed that more than one-third of all software used on personal computers last year was pirated. The BSA, an industry lobby group, says that the piracy rate has to do with the strength of software copyright laws around the world. One example is the rate of piracy in the United Arab Emirates, which has a software piracy rate of 34 percent. This compares to an average rate of 58 percent in the Middle East and Africa. The UAE adopted strong intellectual property laws in the mid-1990s. The desire associate with trade groups such as the World Trade Organization might also be a factor in reducing software piracy as nations that wish to do so - countries such as Vietnam, which currently have a very high rate of software piracy - tend to give in to outside pressures to strengthen intellectual property protections The report said that the reported piracy rate for last year amounted to a $33 billion loss for the industry. The report did include the good news that the 2004 rate of 35 percent was lower than the 36 percent piracy rate reported in 2003. The United States was said to have the lowest piracy rate at 21 percent, while it was as much as 90 percent in Vietnam, the Ukraine, China, and Zimbabwe. The piracy rate in the EU averages 35 Posted by at May 20, 2005 03:01 PM > Discuss this in the Platinax Internet business forums |
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