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Slimebeast on 17 May 2009
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1200p|is|FullHD said:
Slimebeast said:
NJ5 said:
Note that this number is about piracy in business corporations.


I don't think so, but there's no link so how can we know for sure?

The piracy rate of truly all PC software (with private use included) is a lot higher than 41%. Probably more like 80-90%.


What do you base that on?

My own habits, my friend's and aquintance's habits over the years and what I read on forums (and this is in a high income country like Sweden). We pirate on average 98%* PC stuff.

And knowing that China, Russia, rest of Eastern Europe are much worse, of course it's just a joke that less than half of all PC software (like the 41% in the report) would be pirated/illegal. A big joke.

* 98% is an exaggeration. I'd estimate it to be 90-95%, representing all the people ive met through the years here in Sweden)

 

lol man, think before you start writing. If u say 90 - 95 % that means that if u own 5 games u have to pirate 95.

come on, thats ridiculous, I myself always borrowed games from friends and recently also downloaded some, but to make up for the games i actually BOUGHT in my life ( about 50, maybe 20 fullprice ) i would need to pirate 950 games.

thats total BS !!!!!  maybe im not the common case, but many people dont pirate at all, but even the captain jack sparrows amongst us dont have such a % of pirate games. let's say captain jack owns counterstrike and WOW, maybe half life 2, so he needs to copay 97 games.

 

UNREALISTIC !!!!

I only claimed that the overall PC piracy rate is well above 41%.

The 90-95% number was based on my anecdotal evidence, an average estimated of the people Ive met through the years, not necessary representative of the whole world population. Most of the people Ive met (friends, classmates and so on) practically dont buy games at all, they pirate everything. These people have usually "by accident" bought 1 or 2 games (remember we're talking PC games here). That's the majority of ppl, their filosophy is "0 paying".

In my own personal case I estimate it's at least 90%. I started PC gaming in 1995, 14 years ago, and all the games I paid for r in my profile (plus maybe a couple i forgot the names of) - that's 22 games or 1.6/year. But yet I have at least 15 PC games per year that suddenly just "pop up" on my hard drive every once in a while.