Why do people pirate software?
Why do people pirate software? It’s safe to assume that shortly after the first personal computers left store shelves, someone was plotting a way to get software for free. According to a report from Business Software Alliance (BSA), pirated software accounted for 41 percent of all software on PCs worldwide [source: BSA]. The BSA also reports that piracy costs software companies billions of dollars in revenue. Skeptics point out that software providers fund the BSA, making its findings suspect. Whether you believe BSA’s statistic or not, it’s true that piracy remains a big concern for software companies. This concern has led companies to attempt to solve the problem through several different approaches with varying levels of success. Back in the early days of software — piracy was arou
