When a user installs a pirate Windows 7 (or any other software) on his machine, it fails to pay possibly hundreds of dollars for Microsoft. If we add up all the pirated software installed worldwide, this value into the billions of dollars. More specifically, its $ 59 billion, reports The Next Web.
The discussion on this subject is interesting. It has been argued that firms do not fail to win their fortune because of piracy, since there is no guarantee that the software a that user buy the same product illegally does not exist. Nipples Controversy aside, the study reveals that this figure, led by the Business Software Alliance (BSA; the Business Software Alliance), indicates that piracy grew 14% last year.
Emerging countries are primarily responsible for software piracy in the world. The central and eastern Europe together with Latin America see a piracy rate of 64%, followed by Asia-Pacific, with 60%. The United States and Japan have the lowest rate of software piracy: 20% of all applications installed on these two markets.
While software piracy is great, the added value of applications is far from pirates of the total sold by the software industry worldwide. It's $ 59 billion in pirated software from U.S. $ 98 billion in legitimate software, properly marketed.
