Seminar highlights software piracy
Research by the Business Software Alliance, the National Intellectual
Property Office, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, and the European
Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka, revealed that in 2006 the software
piracy rate in Sri Lanka was a staggering 90%.
According to the IDC, a leading IT, telecom and consumer technology
research firm which conducted the research, nine out of ten software
programmes installed on new (personal) computers in Sri Lanka were
unlicensed or obtained illegally through software theft.
This is significantly higher than the 53% piracy rate for the
remainder of the Asia-Pacific region. It also places Sri Lanka in the
bottom six of the 102 countries reviewed worldwide.
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