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Message: <blockquote data-quote="lkdood" data-source="post: 7452146" data-attributes="member: 92282">Software piracy cost technology companies more  than 50 billion dollars around the world last year, with Sri Lanka being  named as the number two culprit in Asia, an industry report said today.Despite successes in the fight to protect intellectual property rights,  on average 43 percent of software used in computers worldwide in 2009  was pirated, from 41 percent the year before, the Business Software  Alliance (BSA) said.Worldwide, piracy losses reached 51.4 billion dollars in 2009, of which  16.5 billion dollars was in the Asia-Pacific region, the annual report  found. Bangladesh had the highest software piracy rate in Asia, followed by Sri  Lanka, Indonesia and Vietnam, with China and India also among the worst  culprits.The deluge of counterfeits was largely due to the growth of the personal  computer market in Brazil, India and China, said the BSA, a global  trade alliance with a regional office in Singapore.On average 59 percent of the 900 million pieces of software installed in  the Asia-Pacific region last year were unlicensed, said Victor Lim, a  vice president at IDC, which carried out the study with the software  alliance.“This study makes clear that while efforts to bring down piracy levels  in the Asia-Pacific are enjoying some success, dollar losses at over  16.5 billion (dollars) remain the highest in the world,” said Jeffrey  Hardee, BSA's vice president and regional director.sundaytimes</blockquote>

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