About 35 percent of the world’s software is pirated, coming down only 1 percent a year, research group IDC found in a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance, which represents about 50 software companies.
"A key trend over the last two or three years is organized piracy, which has become a legitimate business in some countries," said Duncan Brown, IDC’s consulting director. The study, covering 70 countries representing 99 percent of the world’s information technology spending, said a worldwide reduction of software piracy by 10 percentage points to 25 percent could generate 2.4 million jobs and $400 billion of economic growth.
The battle against software piracy has been relatively successful over the last 15 years, with the piracy rate in Europe dropping to 35 percent from almost 80 percent in 1992, when the European authorities adopted special legislation.
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