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Top 10 U.S. Industries With Highest Reports of Software Piracy |
 The Business Software Alliance (BSA) recently reported the top 10 U.S. Industries with the highest reports of software piracy. This list is based on actual reports received by the BSA of infringements in the United States - not a survey:
- Manufacturing
- Sales/Distribution
- Service (general category)
- Financial Services
- Software Development
- IT Consulting
- Medical
- Engineering
- School/Education
- Consulting
Given reports like this, it is still surprising to hear software vendors say that piracy "isn't a big problem" for them and that infringing companies "wouldn't pay for the software anyway."
If manufacturing is the #1 infringing industry in the United States (and they use high value software to design, test and build their products), it seems that software vendors really need to determine the true scope of their piracy problem and identify the businesses they can recover revenue from.
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What's In It for ISVs? The BSA/IDC Global Software Piracy Study
The BSA released its Sixth Annual Global Piracy Study recently and we issued our reaction to it.
There are some interesting macro level data points in the report:
- The dollar cost of piracy is up: "The retail value
of unlicensed software - representing revenue 'losses' to software
companies - broke the $50 billion level for the first time in 2008.
- Worldwide losses grew by 11 percent to $53 billion: "Emerging markets continue to make an impact:
"[T]he worldwide PC software piracy rate rose for the second year in a
row, from 38 percent to 41 percent, largely because PC shipments grew
fastest in high-piracy countries such as China and India."
While macro level statistics like these are arguably relevant, they
don't necessarily help individual ISVs to understand the specific and
direct impact of software piracy on their businesses. Nor do they
help ISVs develop the most appropriate strategies for addressing their
specific problems....
Read the full post
Read our reaction to the BSA/IDC report
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