Software Piracy Market Value: $47.80 Billion
Software companies lost $47.809 Billion to piracy in 2007.
Source: Fifth Annual BSA And IDC Global Software Piracy Study, May 2008.
Pirated copy of Windows cost 50 cents in Vietnam
Source: Associated Press, “Piracy Fines to Increase in Vietnam,” International Herald Tribune, November 8, 2006.
Microsoft loses $498 million per year to software piracy in UK
Source: Andy McCue, “Microsoft launches ‘terrorist-fuelling’ piracy crackdown,” Silicon.com, February 16, 2007, (accessed: May 1, 2007).
8,300 pirated Microsoft software found on British business computers
Between July 2006 to April 2007, more than 8,300 pieces of pirated Microsoft software were found on British business computers.
Source: Andy McCue, “One-third of businesses run fake Microsoft software,” Silicon.com, April 26, 2007,(accessed: May 1, 2007).
$138 million pirated software seized in 2007 in Malaysia
55 business were raided by Malaysian authorities in 2007 for using pirated software, the highest ever number of raids conducted. A total of RM 4.5 million ($138 Million) of pirated software and equipment were seized during those raids.
Source: “Bumper year for antipiracy raiders,” The Star, December 25, 2007,(accessed: January 14, 2008).
35 percent of software installed on computers around the world are pirated
Source: Fourth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study, May 2007.
Ration of software piracy
According to an article in the Financial Times, for every 5,000 Full-Time equivalent employees, £1 million ($1.9 million) worth of non-compliant or unlicensed software would typically be found in company offices.
Source: Alan Cane, “Attacking the pirates,” Financial Times, February 28, 2007, Digital Business section, pg. 1.
Microsoft lost $14 billion to piracy in 2005
Source: Charles Piller, “How Piracy Opens Doors for Windows,” Los Angeles Times, April 9, 2006.
