USATODAY.com – Industry group says software piracy down in China and Russia
> WASHINGTON ââ¬â Makers of computer software report that piracy rates, while still high, declined slightly in both China and Russia last year, but that global losses from the use of illegal computer software rose to $34 billion.
> The Business Software Alliance said in a new report that 35% of the packaged software installed on personal computers worldwide in 2005 was illegal, the same percentage of pirated software found in 2004.
As usual, the study assumes that each pirated copy equals one lost sale. I don’t know about you, but I’m pretty sure people who pirate software leech way more than they effectively can use, and most of the software they pirate is discarded after one brief look. If even that.
