Piracy Rate
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PC software piracy increases globally
News Worldwide PC software piracy rate rises for second year in a row, to 41 percent, with problem being greatest in world's fastest-growing markets, according to new study.
Tags: Piracy, Piracy, India, Business Software Alliance, Hong Kong, Asia-Pacific, Small Business, software, China, enterprise software
SMBs get help against software piracy
News Singapore government and trade associations launch campaign to help small businesses better manage their software licensing assets.
Tags: Piracy, Software, Small And Medium Enterprise, Business Software Alliance, Safe Harbor, Software Piracy, IPO, Singapore, ASME, software company
Software piracy in AP slightly up
News Average piracy rate in the Asia-Pacific region rose by 1 percent in 2005, with revenue losses totaling US$8 billion, BSA finds.
Tags: Software licensing, Piracy
Pirates cost software industry US$48B
News Annual report from software industry group says piracy rates declined in most countries surveyed during 2007, but estimated lost sales worldwide grew overall.
Tags: Software, Piracy, Sales/revenue, Piracy Rate, Piracy, India, Business Software Alliance, Sales, phone, China
US$2.27B: The price of pirate desktop software in the UK
News More than a quarter of the desktop software installed in the United Kingdom last year was pirated.
Tags: Piracy, Business applications, Apple Inc., Egypt, Piracy, Business Software Alliance, International Data Corp., software company, software, desktop software
Microsoft tweaks antipiracy tech for Windows 7
News The software maker is making a couple of changes to the activation process for the operating system as it works to find the balance between preventing piracy and limiting annoyance.
Tags: Piracy, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Genuine Advantage, antipiracy, software, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows
Thailand hopes to be taken off Priority Watch List
News It expects the Untied States will move Thailand from the PWL to the Watch List because of the country's huge success enforcing intellectual property law.
Tags: Copyright, Asia, Business Software Alliance, Thailand, IP, copyright violation, intellectual property, business software, software, financial
Reversing trend, global software piracy rate rises
News The global software piracy rate rose last year for the first time in six years, indicating that the downward trend in piracy rates could be over, according to the latest piracy survey from the Business Software Alliance.
Piracy to push Adobe out of China?
News update Graphics software giant Adobe Systems may leave the Chinese market and other Asian regions due to rampant piracy there.
S'pore: Biggest piracy bust ever
News Police in Singapore have netted their biggest haul ever in pirated music and software.
One in two Asian firms use pirated software
News The piracy rate in Asia-Pacific has risen 3 percent to 54 percent, the Business Software Alliance said.
Revenue loss from piracy in Asia up
News Overall software piracy rate in the region increases by just 1 percent to 55 percent in 2006, but revenue losses from piracy rise sharply by 44 percent to US$11.6 billion.
Tags: Piracy, Regulations, SMB
BSA: Asia remains a piracy hotbed
News Despite heightened anti-piracy efforts, bootleg software is still used by the majority of Asian users, a new report revealed.
Brazil group: Software piracy at US$1.3b
News More than half of the software in use across Brazil last year was pirated, costing the tech industry an estimated US$1.3 billion, a software trade group reported.
Study: Reduce software piracy, increase revenues
News Countries with high software piracy levels stand to gain the most economically, if they reduced the use of bootleg software, says IDC.
Tags: Legal, Piracy, Growth strategies and tools
