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Is software piracy widespread?

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Is software piracy widespread?

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According to the BSA (Business Software Alliance), thirty-nine percent of business application software is pirated worldwide. This group also conducts an annual Global Software Piracy Study. The results published in June of 2002 revealed, “four out of every 10 business software programs is pirated, with nearly $11 billion in worldwide revenue lost in 2001 alone. The U.S. software piracy rate was 25 percent in 2001, up one percentage point from the previous year. BSA estimates that a majority of losses come from businesses and organizations copying software on office computers.” (Retrieved from the World Wide Web, July 21, 2002,) http://www.bsa.org/usa/press/newsreleases//2002-06-17.1167.