May 19, 2005

According to a new global software piracy study done by Business Software Alliance (BSA), more than one third of all software in use today is still pirated. Estimated software company revenue losses due to piracy in 2004 was $33 billion. The countries with the highest piracy rates were Vietnam (92%), Ukraine (91%), China (90%), Zimbabwe (90%) and Indonesia (87%). The countries with the lowest piracy rates were the United States (21%), New Zealand (23%), Austria (25%), Sweden (26%), and United Kingdom (27%).

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The BSA News Release