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Archive for May, 2009

Pirates cost software industry $50 billion in 2008

Wednesday, May 13th, 2009

A fifth of PC software in the United States is pirated and the worldwide cost of piracy topped $50bn for the first time, says the annual report from IDC and the Business Software Alliance (BSA). Despite US piracy running…