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Software piracy rate by country - U.S. lowest, at 20%
- DabAsteroid 18y agoDEFINITION: The piracy rate is the total number of units of pirated software deployed in 2007 divided by the total units of software installed. SOURCE: Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study The ten countries at either end of 107 listed: # 1 Armenia: 93% # 2 Moldova: 92% # 3 Azerbaijan: 92% # 4 Bangladesh: 92% # 5 Zimbabwe: 91% # 6 Sri Lanka: 90% # 7 Yemen: 89% # 8 Libya: 88% # 9 Venezuela: 87% # 10 Iraq: 85% # 98 Switzerland: 25% # 99 Austria: 25% #100 Denmark: 25% #101 Belgium: 25% #102 Sweden: 25% #103 Finland: 25% #104 Japan: 23% #105 New Zealand: 22% #106 Luxembourg: 21% #107 United States: 20% Weighted average: 59.9%
- metatronscube 18y agoEverything in the US is a lot cheaper too, I'm not surprised then that people decide to actually buy the software.
- mixmax 18y agoIt seems there is a very strong correlation between software piracy and GDP per capita. This may point to a cause for software piracy, namely that many people simply can't afford the software they need or want. In Armenia buying Microsift office would set you back roughly 1.2 months pay. (rough numbers here: office $500, Armenian GDP per capita $4900 according to wikipedia)
- reazalun 18y agoI suspect it is a causation, not correlation. I'm from Malaysia. The cost of Photoshop CS3 Extended here is about 4 times average monthly salary.
- mixmax 18y agocausation leads to correlation no?
- trickjarrett 18y agoYes, but a correlation does not mean there has to be a causation.
- mixmax 18y agoSorry if I didn't make my original point clear enough.
- reazalun 18y agoYes I agree. I just want to emphasize the "causation" effect because people here generally dislike piracy but they don't have a choice. The price is so expensive. It's either we pirate it or we don't use it at all. It's kinda remind me of why the President of Romania told Bill Gates that "piracy helped the young generation discover computers". http://techdirt.com/articles/20070201/224452.shtml http://techdirt.com/articles/20070201/224452.shtml
- mixmax 18y agoPoint taken :-)
- ii 18y agoI don't think that it's a direct correlation. It's more about culture and knowledge. Most of armenians, azerbaijans and moldovans don't even KNOW that software can be bought. PC by itself is a huge amount of money for them (and many of them get it free from rich relatives that make money in Moscow, Europe or US) and everything that is inside is considered already overpriced.
- silentbicycle 18y agoThis reminds me of how international editions of books are sold at discount rates to match local economies. Also, DVD region encoding. There doesn't seem to be any equivalent for commercial software.
- reazalun 18y agoIf that is true, I'll start questioning why the price of the DVD LOTR Trilogy Extended Editon here, costs us around a third of average monthly salary.
- silentbicycle 18y agoThere are other factors at play.
- jeffool 18y agoCurious if anyone has any numbers for software piracy historically speaking? We'll forever be hearing how piracy is destroying companies, so one has to wonder how current piracy rates stack up against previous years.
- silentbicycle 18y agoHistorically speaking, software piracy has skyrocketed since the nineteenth century CE. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware#1801:_punched_card_technology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware#1...)