Thanks to Alien_X we can read a follow-up article on the dropping piracy rate last year, which we already reported about earlier. Worldwide piracy of business software has declined slightly last year due to better education and more aggressive anti-piracy tactics, according to industry officials:
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To combat that, the alliance continued circulating brochures on piracy and conducting amnesty campaigns encouraging businesses to pay for additional copies without threat of civil lawsuits or criminal prosecution, which could lead to fines and even imprisonment. Last year, the software group also began using an automated software "robot" to find sites for downloading pirated software and computers that share such programs over Kazaa and other file-swapping networks. Previously, investigators looked for such piracy manually. The study was conducted for the Business Software Alliance by International Planning and Research Corp. The piracy rate was calculated by comparing the researchers' estimates on demand with data on actual software sales. |
The study did not include games, personal finance and other consumer programs. According to the article North America has the lowest piracy rate (24%) while Vietnam has the highest rate (95%).
Source: Yahoo! News
