BSA IDC FUD

truthsearch writes "News.com.com is reporting that a 'study, commissioned by the BSA and conducted by IDC, found that in general, nations with the lowest piracy rates had the largest IT sectors. The study, which examined 57 countries, predicted that a 10-point reduction in the rate of piracy over four years could generate 1.5 million jobs and $64 billion taxes worldwide.' The BSA, er... Microsoft, will use this study to convince governments to crack down on piracy. 'Overall, the countries that have the poorest record of IP rights have slower rates of IT growth,' BSA CEO Robert Holleyman said. Oh, and the countries with the most oppression have had the slowest IT growth, but that can't be the cause, nah."

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"BSA IDC FUD"

[YahoKa]

You know you are a geek when you understand a headline of all these acronyms... :\

Re:"BSA IDC FUD"

[Anonvmous Coward]

"BSA IDC FUD"
You know you are a geek when you understand a headline of all these acronyms... :\


I get the gist of it. A U.S. security agency is investigating Elmer Fudd for opened a federally insured savings account.

In a related study...

[Sanity]

...the BSA pointed out that countries with more relaxed Intellectual Property laws had higher child mortality rates. "The inference is clear", BSA CEO Robert Holleyman said, "Piracy kills babies".

It's About Glue

[ackthpt]

If piracy is high, their IT sector must be low

If an IT sector is low it must be a developing country

If it's a developing country then piracy will be high

thus...

If piracy is high, we impose trade sanctions

If trade sanctions are imposed, a developing country's economy will suffer

If people can't make enough money to buy software because their economy suffers they will not pirate software because they have learned their lesson.

"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue."

The BSA study also determined...

[raehl]

That countries with high piracy rates were much more likely to be populated by people of color.

"Without immediate action to stop the spread of piracy, American citizen's will soon find their skin turning darker and darker," said BSA Spokeman Bubba Nalk. "We can already see the effects of software piracy on college campuses, as file swapping continues to turn white students into asians and even black students, as evidenced by the increased enrollment of students of color."

Mr. Nalk had no comment on whether software piracy also caused male college athletes to turn into women.

Free Software Proposal

[benja]

In the light of these amazing and insightful numbers, I propose that governments all over the world take immediate measures to combat privacy and foster the development and distribution of Free Software. After all, Free Software attacks piracy at its root: Free Software cannot be pirated per definitionem!

These numbers make it clear that countries investing in Free Software will have a clear competitive advantage when it comes to their IT sectors.

:-)

Re:Not what I'd have predicted.

[binaryDigit]

Think about it: countries like Sudan and Nigeria... who's gonna be pirating Windows XP when they don't have a computer to run it on?

Of course they have computers in Nigeria. How else is John Bako sending out his 419 emails to everyone?

Re:Note to BSA: go fuck yourselves

[rice_burners_suck]

Scans every machine, including the registry, does it? And what do you suppose, Mr. Sherlock, would happen if ALL the machines on the aforementioned network are running Linux and FreeBSD, with FREE software running on those systems as the only software that is used by the business? Then how in the fock will the stupid, focking BSA (BULL SHIT ALLIANCE) scan every machine's registry? I think that is a big crock of garbage. They can go fock themselves, those stupid focking BSA. If anybody from the stupid BSA is reading this and wants to come after me, my home address is:

Blvd M. Avila Camacho #120,
Col Lomas De Chapultepec,
11652 Mexico, D.F.,
Mexico

COME AND GET ME!