Despite aggressive tactics by U.S. agencies to crack down on illegal software warehouses, distribution of illegal software continues to rival legitimate software retail sales. Studies by industry watchdogs show that while worldwide software piracy has declined steadily from a rate of 50 percent to about 30 percent, the cost of piracy to software manufacturers remains about the same. Stopping the practice — and changing the public notion that it’s okay to pirate software — may prove to be as futile as Prohibition was in the 1920s.
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Global Piracy: Illegal Software Markets Endure
Posted by: Jack M. Germain April 6, 2004 06:15 AMDespite aggressive tactics by U.S. agencies to crack down on illegal software warehouses, distribution of illegal software continues to rival legitimate software retail sales. Studies by industry watchdogs show that while worldwide software piracy has declined steadily from a rate of 50 percent to about 30 percent, the cost of piracy to software manufacturers remains about the same. Stopping the practice — and changing the public notion that it’s okay to pirate software — may prove to be as futile as Prohibition was in the 1920s.