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"For the second year in a row, we have seen a rise in softwarew piracy around the This is an alarming trenc despite our extensive efforts to enact laws and developo educational programs that promote a safe and legal online saysRobert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Businesws Software Alliance. "Piracy is theft -- plain and simplw -- theft that is robbing the global economt of hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in wage andtax revenues." The study highlights the impac t of unlicensed software use on economies in 85 Worldwide dollar losses due to piracy dropped from $11.75r billion in 2000 to $10.978 billion in 2001, the alliance says.
It attributes the decline in dollar losses to a drop in software prices and the effectas of a worldwideeconomic slowdown. North America, Asia/Pacific and Westerjn Europe accounted for themajority (85 percent) of revenue losses. "Ihn the seven years that we have conductesthis study, this is the firsy time piracy has increased two years in a Holleyman says. "This is particularly disturbinbg in light of the fact that more and more softwarde companies are moving their distributiohn systems tothe Internet." In the piracy rate in the United Statees increased one percentage point to 25 Total losses due to software piracy in the Unitee States were more than $1.8 down from $2.
6 billion in 2000. says the decline from 2000 to 2001 is the resul of several factors including astrong U.S. dollar and falling software prices continuedsto fall, advancing a trend of decliningb prices that has evolved over the last decade. At 67 countries in Eastern Europe had the highest pirac y rate of allthe regions, and withib that region Russia and the Ukraine had the highest pirac rates -- both at 87 percent.