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BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates
judgecorp writes "Despite continued pressure on business users to buy legitimate software, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reports that the campaign seems to be failing. Well over half (57%) of users surveyed in a global survey admit to using pirated software. That's a big increase from the same survey last year — when 43% admitted to using pirated software. The BSA surveyed 15,000 people in 33 countries."
Cmon, we can do better than 57%
... are liars.
So in other words we should have the Boy Scouts go all WWF on the BSA?
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Now what? Where is my cash reward?
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Do you have any idea how many people steal Linux? It is OFF THE CHARTS how many people don't pay for it! It's an epidemic, I tell you, horrifying!
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
Cmon, we can do better than 57%
Now now, they surveyed 15,000 people and worked out that 170 million of them are using pirated software. So that's pretty typical anti-piracy maths.
Science is all about firing a drunk pig out of a cannon just to see what happens.