Difference between revisions of "Increasing Piracy"
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Piracy causes huge losses for owners of software, music and other property. According to a study of the Business Software Alliance, in 2003, losses due to pirated software (thus, only software, not the other properties) were $29 billion, 36% of all software is pirated. And in 2004 and 2005 this amount has only been growing and will keep growing in the future. With the emerging technology (maybe Web 2.0), piracy will be easier because of open standards; that is why this is an emerging problem for our topic. In the future, Intellectual Property has to decrease the amount and easiness of piracy. | |||
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Revision as of 20:34, 8 May 2006
Description
Piracy causes huge losses for owners of software, music and other property. According to a study of the Business Software Alliance, in 2003, losses due to pirated software (thus, only software, not the other properties) were $29 billion, 36% of all software is pirated. And in 2004 and 2005 this amount has only been growing and will keep growing in the future. With the emerging technology (maybe Web 2.0), piracy will be easier because of open standards; that is why this is an emerging problem for our topic. In the future, Intellectual Property has to decrease the amount and easiness of piracy.