Trade group lists top 10 pirated software

[daveza]

http://www.techspot.com/news/29174-t...-software.html

The Software & Information Industry Association released its annual Anti-Piracy year in review this week, noting that it reached its largest piracy settlement yet in a case against Florida Benchmark – which was found using unlicensed software and ended up paying $150,000 – and its first settlement through its Corporate Content Anti-Piracy Program.

Among other things, the SIIA also made a list of the titles most pirated by companies and titles most pirated via the internet, much of which consisted of security tools from Symantec and productivity and design tools from Adobe – makes you wonder if Adobe’s high price points have anything to do with them being a prime piracy target. Check out the lists in full after the jump.

2007 Software Titles Most Frequently Pirated By Companies
1. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
2. Adobe Acrobat
3. Symantec PC Anywhere
4. Adobe PhotoShop
5. Autodesk AutoCAD
6. Adobe DreamWeaver
7. Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator
8. Roxio Toast Titanium
9. Ipswitch WS_FTP
10. Nero Ultra Edition

2007 Software Titles Most Frequently Pirated on the Internet
1. McAfee VirusScan
2. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
3. McAfee Internet Security Suite
4. Intuit TurboTax
5. Adobe Photoshop
6. Adobe Acrobat
7. Intuit Quicken Home and Business
8. Symantec Norton pcAnywhere
9. Symantec Norton Ghost
10. Adobe Creative Suite

Pirating Norton Anti-Virus ?

I would make offenders walk the plank for pure lack of common sense !

[orin76]

Wow, I would've thought MS Office would be in that list.

[daveza]

And Windows XP.

[LabAnimal]

Honestly, Roxio, Mcafee & Symantec don't deserve to be on that list! - Must be some damn stupid people out there!

[milomak]

wow surprised as well at the lack of XP

[Ivan...]

7. Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator
8. Roxio Toast Titanium


never heard of these..

[daveza]

You haven't missed anything.

[BT6LW]

Must have been stats taken from a select group of hapless users - Seriously WTF !...