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Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA
Yeah, I'm sure are a few countries where authorities don't give a fuck about intellectual property and copyrights. However, software companies don't sell much software there either as they actually COULDN'T.
I would assume that China is today the greatest software pirate on the planet. Not only because of the sheer number of citizens but also the weird government that is 1) anti-capitalist but 2) - not surprisingly! - open for new technology, including hardware and software, because that makes them money. (Please, don't get me wrong, I'm not against China in any way... They are great people, with their own Red Flag Linux for the government's use, YEAH!  )
E.g. in Hungary, laws concerning copy- and intellectual rights of software are going to change to more strict as this is mandatory for the EU membership. I don't wish to comment on that because time - however long it takes, though - will show the truth anyway... |
To, surprise you then as USA caused approximately 7 Billion dollar loss(highest) on piracy rather than China's 4 billion.This is ofcourse a figure given by Global Software Piracy Study.This is solely because USA's markets are so big that even small piracy markets amongst them cause huge losses.Still however the piracy rates in USA are quite low about 21% in 2005.