Pirated Software Per Country

[marulez]

TECH firms constantly moan about software piracy and no wonder. Last year it accounted for 35% of the worldwide market and cost the industry $39.6 billion according to the Business Software Alliance, a trade body. America and China lead the world in terms of total losses from piracy at $7.2 billion and $5.4 billion respectively. But when calculated according to the number of computers in each country a different picture emerges. Cash-strapped countries dominate the leader board. In Azerbaijan, which comes out on top, computers are loaded with $262-worth of pirated software on average. But Iceland is the surprise second-placed nation: although software to the tune of $32m is pirated it is spread over only a few computers.


Source: http://www.economist.com/research/ar...ory_id=9248524

[dreamboyrules]

this is very scaring news ! because there is no name of india !

[Stuge]

It must be somewhere in the top 50 .

[Choto Cheeta]

hey Did any one notice... No name for India

[prateek_san]

@thread starter
cool info man......

^ same question why india is not on that list ???

[Stuge]

Originally Posted by prateek_san

@thread starter
cool info man......

^ same question why india is not on that list ???

Hey ,It may not be on the list of 15 ,but I'm sure it will be in top 50.You guys should be happy that we are not in the top 15.

[aceman]

Where is China ????????

[adithyagenius]

I dont think they included games in the list of pirated software. I have seen Max Payne and NFS being pirated the most. Almost every guy I met had them.

[amol48]

good post.... felt good India's not there!!

[Choto Cheeta]

Cori Hartje, director of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative, holds up pirated copies of Windows Vista and Office 2007 that she obtained for less than $10 apiece on the black market during a December trip to Sao Paolo, Brazil. The street vendor even warned that the copies might not work very long, since Microsoft was likely to invalidate the product keys used.

http://www.bnet.com/2346-13072_23-43043-4.html

[cynosure]

And the mods here keep on shouting against the pirated softs
Dont you guys feel astonished that even after so much piracy here in India, we are no serious compitition

[Choto Cheeta]

see even Cori Hartje, director of Microsoft's Genuine Software Initiative bought her self a Pirated copy of Windows and Vista

[vish786]

they forgot to take the survey in india... that is by india is missing in the list

[Edburg]

I guess that in India,only a few percent are techies like us who want the latest and thes best stuffs out in the market.
The rest just surf net and listen songs and nothing else much in their computer.

[anandk]

what it probably means that although "America and China lead the world in terms of total losses from piracy..." when it comes to proportion of 'pirated sw : legal sw', neither us, china or India figure in the list. comforting to know that thus then there IS a sizable percentage in India using legal sw too.

[sachin_kothari]

the population of india is more than 1 billion.
but how many percentage of people have access to computers?

Small wonder, over the next five years, Mexico’s computer penetration is slated to touch 46 PCs per 100 people even while India’s crawls to 1.4% by end-March 2005 from the current 1.1% level.

India is expected to add 11.7 million PCs by end-2005, compared to China’s 44.8 million, Brazil’s 13 million and Mexico’s 11.9 million over the same period”.

Source - http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/...how/986578.cms

So even if India's PC count was more than Mexico's (in end 2005) when percentage is compared, india lags behind.

This simply explains why India is missing from that list.

[girish_AMD]

sachin is right, hardly 3% pay income tax in India and you are expecting India to be No.1 in software piracy? I would rather hope India be No.1 in technology

[deepak.krishnan]

India is not listed???? OMG ... I can't believe

[fun2sh]

how can india be not on the list. in terms of the no of users on any warez forums we indians are on the second place only after americans

[enticer86]

maybe India was on top of the list, but our dear gr8 chmpions, the Indian Hackers tinkered with the reports!!!!!

CHEEEEEEEEERRRRRRSSSSSSSSS to INDIA

[eggman]

I'm migrating to Azerbajjan.........(where is it btw?)

[fun2sh]

Originally Posted by eggman

I'm migrating to Azerbajjan.........(where is it btw?)

LOL N WAT WILL U DO THERE

[deepak.krishnan]

Originally Posted by fun2sh

LOL N WAT WILL U DO THERE

He'll form a 'PIRATES OF THE AZERBAIJAN' group there

[ax3]

some1 must have REMooVED india from the list ....... WOW ...........


so our country does not support piracy ....... .......

[iMav]

India ek cheez mein aage tha usmein bhi naam nahi

[naveen_reloaded]

very wierd...

no india??

might be some error in thier date base

[dOm1naTOr]

See , thats what im takin bout...SAFE PIRACY...thats what we practice in India.

[sabret00the]

Originally Posted by dreamboyrules

this is very scaring news ! because there is no name of india !

[Anindya]

Thus Let us all continue the piracy regime and the govt. must dedicate next yr. as "THE PIRACY PROMOTION YEAR!" At the end of the next yr i am sure we will be there in that esteemed list!