The software piracy rate has slightly dropped in Pakistan from 86 per cent to 84 per cent, after remaining unchanged over the past two years, which would benefit the country in many ways, a latest international study states.

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The software piracy rate in Pakistan has come down at a time when globally it recorded a three per cent increase to 38 per cent in 2007, which has increased piracy-related losses to nearly $48 billion against $40 billion in 2006.

The Fifth Annual Global Software Piracy Study, released by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) here on Friday, noted that piracy-related losses had gone down to $125 million in Pakistan against $143 million in 2006.

With 84 per cent piracy, Pakistan now ranks 13th among top 25 countries with the highest piracy rates against No 7 last year.

It followed

  • Armenia (93pc)

  • Bangladesh (92pc)

  • Azerbaijan (92pc)

  • Moldova (92pc)

  • Zimbabwe (91pc)

  • Sri Lanka (90pc)

  • Yemen (89pc)

  • Libya (88pc)

  • Venezuela (87pc)

  • Vietnam (85pc)

  • Iraq (85pc)

  • Indonesia (84pc)

“This report depicts that the government is serious about reducing software piracy to benefit its economy, information technology industry, businesses and computer users,” commented Aly Harakeh, a spokesman for BSA, an organisation representing the global software industry and its hardware partners.

The study, conducted by the International Data Corporation (IDC), a leading information technology industry’s global market research and forecasting firm, also observed that there was a notable progress in the worldwide fight against software piracy in 2007. Of the 108 countries studied, the piracy rate dropped in 67 countries and increased in only eight countries, while it remained unchanged in 33 countries.

Meanwhile, the global software piracy rate increased by three per cent to 38 per cent in 2007, which has enhanced piracy-related losses to nearly $48 billion against $40 billion in 2006.

The report also noted that businesses and consumers would spend nearly $400 billion on software over the next four years across the world and assuming piracy rates would not change during the period, more than $225 billion worth of computer programmes would be pirated.

“So piracy still remains a big issue for the global software industry, including Pakistan,” said Aly Harakeh.

“Coupled with lost tax revenues and slower job growth than a larger legitimate market would provide, the software piracy also has clear negative consequences for local economies,” the study added.

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Well, I think its not really 84% percent Its lesser if big companies like Microsoft do some awareness campain at home consumer level and in  Pakistan people even dont know Windows is paid or free.  They usually use warez, cracks, serials, pirated etc

2nd Reason When you get PC with all accessories in 100$ who would pay antoher 100$ for windows ?

Does it make sense ? what do you say ?

Ahmad

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