EU SOFTWARE PIRACY
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLA REPORT from market analysts IDC has revealed 37% of business programmes used in the EU are pirated. The study, involving 5,600 interviews, identified Greece as having the worst problem, with 63% of business software being pirated, followed by Poland and Lithuania (58%), Latvia (57%) and Estonia 54%. Richer EU countries France, Spain and Italy also had high piracy rates of 44, 45 and 49%. Britain was comparatively clean at 29%. All this pales into comparison with the developing world however, with ICM estimating 92% of business software in China ...
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