2010, the industry trade association, according to estimates by the BSA by the “shadow economy” 1.6 billion euros in sales by unlicensed software missed. Worldwide, 42 percent of all programs used are unlicensed, which corresponds to software worth 63 billion dollars, the Business Software Alliance said on Tuesday.

Total certified again the BSA to users in Germany, however, a high sensitivity to the rights of intellectual property . In international users were compared in this country, according to self-report “Piracy muffle.” Germany rangiere it to the UK in second place. Above all, moral concerns are given high priority (43 percent of respondents), 32 percent could hold by the risk of legal consequences of an illegal use. However, only 66 percent said they would basically never resort to unlicensed software.

Globally, the market was shifting shadows with software at the emerging and developing countries. 2011 56 percent of all PCs sold had gone to these countries, with only a fraction of the legal software was sold there. Thus, the “piracy rate” in China at 77 percent, in Russia and India, both at 63 percent and Brazil at 53 percent.

The Business Software Alliance are companies such as Microsoft Adobe Intel Apple organized. The Association regularly determined what damage the software industry through the use of unlicensed software copies produced. But he determined together with the market research firm IDC, the number of computers were sold in one country. The value of this potentially necessary software will be counted against that of the actual products sold.