Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Software piracy is predicted to Decline


Jakarta - Indonesia is still considered to be one of the countries with high levels of software piracy in the world. However, for this year, Indonesia is still believed to be holding the trends can decrease the percentage of piracy.

According to predictions representative Business Software Alliance Indonesia Donny A. Sheyoputra, the percentage of software that dibajak land in the water this year will be on the decline.

Nevertheless, he continued, in a nominal loss or potential loss of income that possibility had even increased.

Donny cite conditions last year, which is the percentage of pirated software products down 1% from the year 2006 to 84%. Meanwhile, the value of loss had increased to U.S. $ 411 million, while the 2006 value loss' only 'U.S. $ 350 million.

"This condition can occur because of market conditions or cake software industry increasingly large volume of piracy down time. Because the cake (market) is the large, repercussions potential loss is also larger also," he said from a written description of the received detikINET, on Tuesday (11 / 11/2008).

Conditions like this happen in the markets in the United States that the volume of pembajakannya only 20%. But the disadvantages compared to most other countries in the world, Donny supplement.

BSA itself is considered piracy in some models. First, the corporate end user piracy section, or done by the end-user company. Second, the retail section, alias piracy by the retail traders. Third, hard disk loading section, namely a computer store to computer products with pirated software.

"Concern BSA is the corporate end user section, because the losses incurred for the software industry at large. The second category of piracy preferred the police, and the third is usually become their concern companies vendor BSA members," Donny also. (Ash / fyk)

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