Crime > Software piracy rate: Countries Compared
The Software Piracy Rate reports the proportion of installed software that is pirated. It takes into account both commercial and open-source programs.
Piracy, and intellectual property in general, is a contentious issue between developed states and the rest of the world. Developed states are net producers of software and emerging economies have lax policing as well as minimal financial incentive for compliance. Among frequent pirates, emerging markets pirate 4 times as much as mature markets.
This represents a large missed opportunity for software publishers as emerging markets represent 56% the world's new PC shipments.
Findings from the <a href="http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/downloads/study_pdf/2011_BSA_Piracy_Study-Standard.pdf">2011 Software Alliance report</a>:
1. The overrall worldwide piracy rate was 42%.
2. Software piracy is particularly common among young males.
Note: this data is from a survey. The actual incidence of privacy may be higher, particularly in jurisdictions where penalties for piracy are enforced.
Piracy, and intellectual property in general, is a contentious issue between developed states and the rest of the world. Developed states are net producers of software and emerging economies have lax policing as well as minimal financial incentive for compliance. Among frequent pirates, emerging markets pirate 4 times as much as mature markets.
This represents a large missed opportunity for software publishers as emerging markets represent 56% the world's new PC shipments.
Findings from the <a href="http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/downloads/study_pdf/2011_BSA_Piracy_Study-Standard.pdf">2011 Software Alliance report</a>:
1. The overrall worldwide piracy rate was 42%.
2. Software piracy is particularly common among young males.
Note: this data is from a survey. The actual incidence of privacy may be higher, particularly in jurisdictions where penalties for piracy are enforced.
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The piracy rate is the total number of units of pirated software deployed in 2007 divided by the total units of software installed.
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Interesting observations about Crime > Software piracy rate
- Chile ranked first for software piracy rate amongst High income OECD countries in 2007.
- Bulgaria ranked first for software piracy rate amongst European Union in 2007.
- Venezuela ranked first for software piracy rate amongst Emerging markets in 2007.
- Armenia ranked first for software piracy rate amongst Europe in 2007.
- Albania ranked first for software piracy rate amongst NATO countries in 2007.
- Greece ranked first for software piracy rate amongst Eurozone in 2007.
- United States ranked last for software piracy rate amongst Group of 7 countries (G7) in 2007.
- Japan ranked last for software piracy rate amongst Non-religious countries in 2007.
- Zimbabwe ranked first for software piracy rate amongst Heavily indebted countries in 2007.
- Bangladesh ranked first for software piracy rate amongst Muslim countries in 2007.
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There is a strong push by developed nations (who are strong producers of intellectual property) to force developing nations to improve their enforcement of intellectual property rights, despite the fact that they themselves were slow to adopt strong protection of intellectual property during their own development phase. US industry has estimated it loses between US$200-250 billion annually due to copyright infringement around the world, and the <a href=http://themindtrap.typepad.com/mindtrap/2005/04/dont_look_at_th.html>Bush Administration has listed 14 countries</a> which need to improve protection of intellectual property or face US trade sanctions -- the countries are Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Philippines, Russia, Turkey and Venezuela. Israel stands out on this list by having a software piracy rate of only 35%, the same as Canada and slightly more than half the software piracy rate of Brazil, with the next lowest software piracy rate at 61%.
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However, developing countries claim they need access to knowledge, and developed countries will need to yield some ground to make it worthwhile for developing nations to increase protection of intellectual property. During <a href=http://themindtrap.typepad.com/mindtrap/2005/04/the_intellectua.html>discussions held by the World Intellectual Property Organization on this topic</a>, India's representatives said "For developing countries to benefit from providing IP protection to rights holders based in developed countries, there has to be some obligation on the part of developed countries to transfer and disseminate technologies to developing countries."
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Piracy, and intellectual property in general, is a contentious issue between developed states and the rest of the world. Developed states are net producers of software and emerging economies have lax policing as well as minimal financial incentive for compliance. Among frequent pirates, emerging markets pirate 4 times as much as mature markets.
This represents a large missed opportunity for software publishers as emerging markets represent 56% the world's new PC shipments.
Findings from the <a href="http://globalstudy.bsa.org/2011/downloads/study_pdf/2011_BSA_Piracy_Study-Standard.pdf">2011 Software Alliance report</a>:
1. The overrall worldwide piracy rate was 42%.
2. Software piracy is particularly common among young males.
Note: this data is from a survey. The actual incidence of privacy may be higher, particularly in jurisdictions where penalties for piracy are enforced.
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You can't expect people with like 200 usd or less monthly income to pay 60 usd for a game or thousands for the adobe suits.
One of the solutions to decrease piracy would be making the prices of software proportional to the average salary's of each country:
It's better sell a game for 6 usd in a country where people make 1/10 of the us salary than nothing.
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For Example: http://drbray.blogspot.com/2011/10/necessary-freeware.html
If sites like this were disseminated all around the world and translated into many languages, then one would see the piracy of software DECREASE by a huge factor!
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20% of software in the USA being pirate copies, is a projected loss of $8,040,000,000. 93% of software in Armenia being pirate copies is a projected loss of only $8,000,000. The countries at the top have far less people who actually use software, and like a few have mentioned, not such strict copyright laws.
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Software companies do not want to hassle their customers with ultra tight security. Otherwise they would lose business. So they try to compromise by implementing things such as SecuRom and product keys and what not. But unfortunately, someone, for some reason unbeknownst to me, decides to bypass it and shares it with everyone. Probably so he or she can get a moment of fame.
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The fun part of the story is that the (Paris) General Prosecuter found no infraction in this (illegal) agreement!
See the whole story on:
http://remoteanything.com/archives/groupama.pdf
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