South Africans pirate more software

An IDC study that was released in January 2008 found that reducing software piracy could generate hundreds of thousands of new jobs as well as billions of dollars in economic growth.
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:confused: Really?
 
So how beetman does that detract from the fact software piracy has gone up, not quite sure but anyhoo :)

We are feeling the pinch and paying 25k for the cs suite is just rubbish when you can get for free :p
 
Except that software is created by a team and put on disc by robots .......... I just fail to see more job creation. Loss of earnings (supposedly) yes but hundreds of thousands of jobs, nuh uh.
 
No what they are basing it on meph is everyone who pirated would have bought it which as beet says is not the case. If you think about it everyone buying what they pirate yes job creation would sky rocket as would sales but they don't factor in most people don't have cash and would not spend it.
 
So, the same doff argument that they use when moaning about lost music revenues then :D
 
This age old argument again.... I fail to see how it is detrimental to the local economy as it is in fact saving us billions of dollars by reducing our imports.
 
“This report demonstrates that we have more work to do in South Africa to further reduce software piracy,”
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No, you have more work to do to reduce the ludicrously high prices and mark-ups you slap onto the software. Make your software more affordable and accessible, and you will start becoming far more effective at reducing unregistered software.
 
Yeah, this happened to me more than once... only needed to buy the key cause trial expired, then I get that message...WTF???

Next stop, google +crack.

Or sometimes I even find open source equivelant - which in the case REALY causes company X loss of revenue.

zamicro said:
I wanted to buy Corel Video Studio in their online shop. But, during checkout, I was informed that I am not allowed to buy it (being in SA). So will I care to pirate it then? Hell no!
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I think pirating software will create more jobs... Both for those who are going to use it and for those who produces the fakes.
 
rpm said:
South Africans pirate more software
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BSA releases more pointless statistics and meaningless inferences.

*** queue much loud drum bashing and boisterous shouting ***

The BSA has achieved what for the industry exactly? If these statistics are to be believed, then it means that the BSA is failing in its job and the industry is wasting their money by using them? Might as well just leave it up to the industry members to pursue losses in a civil court rather than wasting money on pointless membership in a toothless organisation.
 
I need to buy MS products soon, but its a real problem when the Rand worsens against the dollar. Open source is starting to look really good, so we might end up not actually buying any. But getting my mail out of outlook (4 years) is going to be a mission.

And why cant I just use apps on a pay per use basis. ie. Want to use photoshop, but that is maybe once or twice a year. Not going to pay thousands to use it.
 
New study suggests that pricy software increased in SA over the last year

Pricy software on PCs in South Africa rose 1% from 2007 to 2008, translating into total industry losses of around R3.1 billion last year.

While there was an increase in pricy software among 15% of the sample countries, a recent study has shown that half of the 110 nations that were included have experienced an increase in pricy software :D
 
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