Posted on Tuesday, June 6th, 2006 at 6:08 pm
Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on personal computers (PC) worldwide in 2005 was illegal, amounting to $34 billion in global losses due to software piracy. However, some improvements in a number of markets indicate education, enforcement and policy efforts are beginning to pay off in emerging economies such as China, Russia and India and in Central Eastern Europe and the Middle East & Africa.
These are among the findings of an annual global PC software piracy study released today by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the international association of the world’s leading software developers. The independent study was conducted by IDC, the information technology (IT) industry’s leading global market research and forecasting firm.
