{"id":105111,"date":"2014-06-30T16:55:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=105111"},"modified":"2014-06-30T17:11:00","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T15:11:00","slug":"software-piracy-costs-sa-billions-bsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/105111-software-piracy-costs-sa-billions-bsa.html","title":{"rendered":"Software piracy costs SA billions: BSA"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new\u00a0study from the BSA<\/a> (formerly the Business Software Alliance) has found that\u00a0the commercial value of unlicensed software in South Africa was\u00a0$385-million (R4.08-billion) in 2013, down from\u00a0$564 million 2011.<\/p>\n

Software piracy in South Africa has decreased from 35% to 34% since the\u00a0results of the BSA’s last Global Software Survey\u00a0survey was conducted in 2011.<\/p>\n

In terms of the commercial value of unlicensed PC Software, the US topped the global list at $9.7 billion at an unlicensed rate of 18% in a licensed market of $44.4-billion, followed by China, India, Brazil and France.<\/p>\n

Overall, unlicensed software was installed on 43% of global PCs in 2013, which the BSA estimated had a commercial value of $62.7-billion.<\/p>\n

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Unlicensed PC software 2013<\/p><\/div>\n

South Africa\u2019s unlicensed software installation rate was the lowest in Africa, ahead of the likes of Egypt (62%) Nigeria (81%), Kenya (78%), and Tunisia (75%).<\/p>\n

However, due to the size of its market, countries like Egypt ($198 million), Nigeria ($287 million), and Kenya ($128 million), were well below SA in terms of the commercial value of unlicensed software.<\/p>\n

The report, which the BSA said was drawn from a global survey of nearly 22,000 consumers and enterprise PC users, along with a parallel survey of more than 2,000 IT managers, found that emerging markets now account for 56% of all PCs in use globally. Emerging markets also make up\u00a0nearly three-quarters of all unlicensed software installations (73%).<\/p>\n

\u201cThat trend is likely to continue, as this year\u2019s study found that 65% of the PC software installed in emerging economies was not properly licensed, versus 23% in developed economies,\u201d BSA said.<\/p>\n

More on piracy<\/h3>\n

First online pirate in SA pleads guilty, sentenced<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Movie piracy in SA \u2013 a director\u2019s view<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

How to stop government from spying on your torrents<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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