[Discussioni] Economist sui dati BSA

[Stefano Maffulli]

Per ovvie ragioni non riporto l'intero articolo, ma solo parti
significative.

Finalmente lo dicono anche altri.

bye
stef

The Economist (print edition), May 19th 2005

Software piracy: BSA or just BS?
May 19th 2005

>From The Economist print edition

[...]
IT SOUNDS too bad to be true; but, then, it might not be true. Up to 35%
of all PC software installed in 2004 was pirated, resulting in a
staggering $33 billion loss to the industry, according to an annual
study released this week by the Business Software Alliance (BSA), a
trade association and lobby group.

Such jaw-dropping figures are regularly cited in government documents
and used to justify new laws and tough penalties for pirates[...]

[...]

The problem is that the economic impact of global software piracy is far
harder to calculate. Some academics have shown that some piracy actually
increases software sales, by introducing products to people who would
not otherwise become customers. Indeed, Bill Gates chirped in the 1990s
that piracy in China was useful to Microsoft, because once the nation
was hooked, the software giant would eventually figure out a way to
monetise the trend. (Lately Microsoft has kept quiet on this issue.)

[...]