41% of all PC software is pirated

[Slimebeast]

NJ5 said:

Slimebeast said:

 

 

NJ5, it's like.. don't u have any friends IRL??
(rethorical question, of course u have friends, and ur even in the business, as i understand it u work with programming, so of course u know how commin it is. No one living in Sweden can miss how big piracy is, so I know u are just debating for the sake of it)

I do have friends, but I don't pretend that my friends are representative of the whole population. No one has enough and diverse enough friends to be able to claim that.

Think about it this way. Lots of people use their computers just for browsing the Internet, listening to music and chatting online. For doing that you don't need any pirated software, since most PCs (in Europe and USA at least) are sold with legal copies of Windows which allow you to do all that. Many people also use Microsoft Office to create some documents, but not everyone pirates them. So for many people they'll pirate one or zero programs.

Whatever you think by looking at your friends doesn't say much about the true percentage.

 

 

 Good point, but those with OEM software drown in the statistics. One copy of Windows every four years is negilible compared to 50 games/programs downloaded though torrents by a pirate in the same time span.