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BSA: software piracy up for second straight year
Posted on 10/06/02 18:00 by Jan Willem
The BSA has released a report on the year 2001. The purpose of the report is to review available data to determine the worldwide business software piracy rates and the associated dollar losses.
The alliance said in its annual study, now in its eighth year, that it lost nearly $11 billion in sales to software piracy in 2001.
A more telling statistic was that 40 percent of all new software installed by businesses last year was obtained on the black market, up from 37 percent in 2000.
Since the study began in 1994, we have seen a steady decrease in the rate of software piracy. Unfortunately, this downward trend in piracy rates has not been evident in the past two years. In 2000, we started to notice stability in the level of piracy for developed countries, rather than the downward trend we expected. We speculated that after the reduction of casual piracy, we were seeing a core level of piracy that would be more persistent. In 2001, we saw the effects of a worldwide economic slowdown that hit technology spending particularly hard. The results of this year's study indicate thatsoftware piracy rose in response to the pressure of the curtailed spending of the economic downturn. This is the first period of a general global economic slowdown since the study began in 1994. The results presented here suggest that the progress against piracy that was made in the 1990s is conditional. Compliance with software licensing is at risk of being considered an economic luxury that Can be abandoned in difficult times. |
Mind that this study only reports about piracy in business, the BSA has not made studies of piracy losses due home copying. Read the entire study here.
Source: BSA.org
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If they don't want this to happen, then they MUST lower prices.
They'd like to make out that they are the victims in all of this, wheras actually what they are doing is more akin to a mafia protection racket: pay extortionate fees for poor, buggy software or face still bigger lawsuits.
If consumers think that software is expensive, you should see business prices.
Software prices are absolutely insane. I realize that it takes alot of time and effort to create software but the companies are too damn greedy and are seeking too high a profit. Take Windows for example (or Office) the software is 300 bucks for the base product( office is higher) and every two-four years you have to upgrade for another 200 + bucks. Consumers do not want to pay that much and small businesses can't afford to do so. Lower Proces = Lower Piracy rate. Companies need to offer much cheaper upgrades and some sort of incentives for businesses to purchase the software. The way it is now most software companies enjoy a monopoly with their particular product and they need to realize that they are fucking themselves by their own greedy pricing. 
There are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics........:7
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