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Software group announces top U.S. state piracy offenders
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December 31, 1998 by Clare Haney |
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(IDG) -- The Business Software Alliance yesterday revealed the identities of the top ten U.S. states where the vendor antipiracy body gained the most amount of money from piracy settlements over the course of the last six years.
In total, the BSA netted more than $35 million from U.S. companies it has caught using illegal copies of software applications, the organization said in a statement issued yesterday.
According to the BSA statement, California was the worst offender, with companies based there coughing up $6.8 million in piracy settlements, followed by Texas with $3.8 million and Illinois with $2.4 million. The other U.S. states in the BSA's top ten piracy list were New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, North Carolina, Florida and Massachusetts.
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The BSA estimated that 40 percent of software used worldwide in 1997 was pirated, equating to a potential loss in software revenue of $11.4 billion. The U.S. has one of the lowest piracy rates of 27 percent, the body said, while in countries like Indonesia and Vietnam, close to 100 percent of all software is pirated.
According to a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP report released by the BSA in October, last year in the U.S. approximately 620,000 people were employed directly in the software industry, accounting for about $7.2 billion in taxes. If an end could be put to piracy, an extra 140,000 jobs would be created in the software industry generating an additional $1 billion in tax revenue, the report estimated.
BSA members include Adobe Software Inc., Autodesk Inc., Corel Corp., Lotus Development Corp., Microsoft Corp., Network Associates Inc., Novell Inc. and Symantec Corp.