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BSA Creates Piracy Statistics

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thin-air dept.

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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  3. Re:fuck you by actor_au · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh, and for "statistics" read "numbers that I pulled out of my ass

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  4. Statistics! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Statistics are like Bikini's...
    What they show may be interesting but what they don't show is even more interesting...

    I had an old perv for stats.

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  8. Pirate Jokes! by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why did the pirate go to the movie?
    It was rated "arrrr".

    Where do pirates eat?
    Arrrrby's.

    A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel attached to his groin. The bartender asks what the deal is with the steering wheel.
    The pirate replys, "Arrr, it's driving me nuts!".

  9. slashdot admin abuse of privilege by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Dear Michael:

    Shut up. If you have a comment about an article, leave a comment in response. Keep your poorly-formed analogies out of the submission itself please.