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BEIJING, May 26 (UPI) -- Analysts say there was a significant drop in software piracy in China last year. The research company Chinalabs.com said 38 percent of the software on computers in China in 2011 was illegally obtained, a decline of 3 ...
May 26, 2012 at 17:28 | Source: United Press International
500,000. That’s the number of takedown requests Microsoft has submitted to Google just over the past month related to copyright infringement and software piracy. Extrapolating that for a whole year—assuming half a million takedown requests a month ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: PC World
Less than 40 per cent of software installed on computers in China was pirated in 2011, a decline of 3 percentage points from the previous year, according to Chinalabs.com, a consulting and research company. The software piracy rate dropped from 41 per cent ...
May 27, 2012 at 06:50 | Source: AsiaOne
The industry group Business Software Alliance is out with its annual report on global software piracy and it appears that the BRIC countries are still pretty dominant. Yes, Zimbabwe has the world's highest rate of software piracy at 92 percent ...
May 16, 2012 at 16:57 | Source: Foreign Policy
Less than 40 percent of software installed on computers in China was pirated in 2011, a decline of 3 percentage points from the previous year, according to Chinalabs.com, a consulting and research company. The software piracy rate dropped from 41 percent ...
May 24, 2012 at 23:57 | Source: China Daily
According to the annual BSA Global Software Piracy Study, 57% of computer users were willing to admit that they pirate software. All told, that adds up to an estimated $63.4 billion worth of software, though there's no way to tell how much of that hurts ...
May 15, 2012 at 18:39 | Source: YAHOO!
The value of software used illegally reached a record high last year of $63.4bn, according to a study, as increasing numbers of computers were sold in emerging markets where piracy rates are the highest. Losses from piracy have nearly doubled in the past ...
May 15, 2012 at 04:27 | Source: Financial Times
The findings were reflected in the company’s recent 2011 Global Software Piracy Study, conducted in partnership with IDC and Ipsos Public Affairs. It incorporated 182 discrete data inputs for each of 116 national and regional economies studied.
May 23, 2012 at 21:57 | Source: ARNnet
"Software piracy demands a similarly forceful response -- concerted public education and vigorous law enforcement." The report pegged the overall global piracy rate at 42 percent, roughly the same as the 2010 mark, with much of that activity ...
May 15, 2012 at 22:56 | Source: CIO
Vietnam recorded a PC software piracy rate of 81 percent in 2011, costing the big business interests that control the computer industry US$395 million in commercial value, according to an international study released in Hanoi on Thursday. The rate ...
May 19, 2012 at 11:39 | Source: Thanhnien