BSA Creates Piracy Statistics

JakiChan writes "According to this story on Yahoo! news the BSA commissioned a study that decided that 39% of all business software is pirated, down from 40%. The decline is attributed to the BSA's enforcement techniques. 'The piracy rate was calculated by comparing the researchers' estimates on demand with data on actual software sales.'" In other words, some guys sat in a room and decided that people probably wanted to buy ten copies of software, but only five were sold, so the piracy rate must therefore be 50%. By a similar process we can calculate that 99% of all ocean-front homes are pirated.

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Now I know why MS software is buggy

[jhines0042]

Its purely to stop people from being able to use the software without calling Microsoft!

Rob Enderle, a technology analyst with Forrester Research, added that while music and movies remain stand-alone products, software is increasingly packaged with technical support and regular updates. He said a pirated copy is sometimes worthless without those services.

Because when you call in they check to see if you have a registered copy!

Eventually, they'll have so many bugs that copying will be worthless and nobody will use their software at all!

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Sorry, it had to be done.