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Software Piracy Still On The Rise - $50 Billion Loss in 2008

According to the BSA (Business Software Alliance), software piracy in 2008 dropped in half of the 110 countries that BSA studied. However, the worldwide piracy rate rose for the second year in the row, from 38% to 41%. In another sign of the scale of the problem, the monetary value of unlicensed software losses to software companies broke the $50 billion level for the first time. Worldwide losses grew by 11 percent to $53.0 billion in non-adjusted dollars, although half of that growth was the result of the falling US dollar. Excluding the effect of exchange rates, losses grew by 5 percent to $50.2 billion. This compares to a legitimate PC software market of $88 billion in 2008, and a personal computer market of $244 billion.

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