41% of all PC software is pirated

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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)

Here is the problem. Most of the piracy is for software that isnt released in those regions so really these figures don't matter much at all. I don't see how a company can lose money in a region they don't release their product in.