Piracy

[I.B.Blackman]

At a glanceSoftware piracyA free rideMay 14th 2008From The Economist print editionThe $48 billion annual cost of software piracyMANY PC users have saved a bit of cash by running a pirated version of a must-have software program at some point. Such piracy cost technology firms $48 billion last year, up by $8 billion from 2006, according to an annual study published on Wednesday May 14th by the Business Software Alliance, a trade body. Users in rich countries have become a bit more honest (or more scared) in recent years, with rates falling slightly. But this is offset by a big rise in a few poor countries with weaker regulations. In Armenia, the worst offender of the 108 countries surveyed, 93% of software is reckoned to be illegal. America has the lowest piracy rate, at 20%.

[YFSD]

*Doesn't care*

[That's That Kid]

It costs them that much, but are they losing revenue, or just profits? If it's only profits, then they can f*ck off. Long may piracy continue I say.

[LS]

Saved around £250,000 thanks to the internet

[Guest LOGers]

I don't do piracy.

[Trim]

*clicks photoshop icon*

[Jubez II]

if I had to pay for all this music.. wow.. just "lol"Hold tight RNS

[revs]

you guys are putting me out of work

[Ego]

*carries on downloading photoshop and dem ting dere till he dies*

[I.B.Blackman]

you guys are putting me out of work

*Downloads More*

[anti social]

I 4 one am glad piracy is about. These faceless corporations (software companies, record companies, movie companies etc) have been robbing us 4 years. Now they're gettin robbed and they dont like it? SMH.

[Thun]

The poor companys wont make the extra millions they over charge people now.What a pity.

[revs]

you guys are putting me out of work

*Downloads More*

bastard

[Beavis]

Pirate 4 life

[Skola]

The f*ckin record labels have been made stinkingly rich over the last few decades.f*ck them. Cut out the middle man, more power to the artists.If you want to make big money, tour.Madonna left her label and signed a multi million dollar contract with a concert agency.

[Guest SKYSCRAPER]

Don't care.