Business Software Alliance (BSA) issued the results of their latest study about circulation of pirated software. The results of the study say if total losses of illegal software usage throughout the year 2010 of 59 billion dollars or up 14% from the year 2009. Based on the results of the survey of Ipsos Public Affairs to 15,000 users PC, discovered the fact that most users are aware of intellectual property and prefer to use original software than the bootleg. The concerns of the BSA is most people use pirated products but they don't realize if they are using the pirated products.
The main findings of the BSA about global software piracy are:
Sales of PCS into emerging market increased to over 50% of the total sales of the PC world, but the original software purchase is only 20% of total sales in the world.Last year's loss due to pirated software in developing countries is only about a third of the total loss of the world, last year's losses reached 32 billion dollars which means over 50% globally in 2010 the use of pirated software on your PC reach 42% which is the second highest record in the last 8 years. The highest record is 43% in 2009. Piracy in the Asia Pacific region and Latin America up 1 points compared to the year 2009. Two of the region is a region with a total of most developing countries. 7 out of 10 users PC agree to support innovators in promoting his findings to develop again 8 of 10 PC users better appreciate original than pirated software because software more reliable and more amanPembajakan the most common is buying software with 1 license to then installed on many computers. 60% believe it is actually done in house and 47% believe properly done in the Office.