25% of software on Japanese computers is illegal
May 16th, 2007 by James
The Business Software Alliance has released their 4th annual study on software piracy, somehow calculating that piracy rates dropped in 62 of the 102 countries surveyed:
According to the study, the five countries with the highest piracy rates are Armenia (95%), Moldova (94%), Azerbaijan (94%), Zimbabwe (91%) and Vietnam (88%). The lowest piracy rates are seen in the U.S. (21%), New Zealand (22%), Japan (25%) and Denmark (25%). Austria, Switzerland and Sweden are all tied at 26%.
25%? Where is all this Japanese software piracy coming from?
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Don’t ask questions like that or else newspapers will start pointing fingers at Korean and Chinese people living in Japan as well as other foreigners.
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Especially since with that claim, 25% of the japanese computermarket would be foreigners
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I’m a software developer, but 25% is acceptable. If you tighten the piracy protection, that only gives motives for people to go and get open source softwares such as Linux, OpenOffice.org, etc. Of cource, if you call movies, games as ’software’, that’s a totally different story.
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25% is interesting considering the fact that they publish magazines that teach you how to download stuff off the net (entire magazines devoted to Winny and WinMX). On the other hand most of those magazines seem to be more about getting free Pr0n than anything else.
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For many years (since the mid 1990’s) there have been industry surveys that talk about how much the software, music and movie industry is “losing due to piracy”.
Many do NOT believe the statistics being used by these industry surveys, hence they tend to ignore the advice of the BSA in terms of the software piracy surveys, that have been conducted for the last 14 years.
“Really, it’s not really that important how much the software, fonts, music and movie industry is losing, but what should be relevant is “by how much” you could improve your bottom line and cash flow, if you pay attention to the real issues!
Further Information: http://www.pcprofile.com/We_Dont_Care_How_Much_The_Software_Industry_Is_Losing.pdf
Rob Harmer
PCProfile
http://www.pcprofile.com/
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Typical american kinda a report letting the rest of the world know how good they are and buy software, now if they could just pirate software and quit shooting each other the USA would be a better place.
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