[IP] The software industry is learning from the RIAA?
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From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: May 19, 2005 8:10:31 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: The software industry is learning from the RIAA?
“Pirated” is not the same as “lost sales”! But maybe we really do
want to encourage Asia to have large native software industry to
compete with us by pricing ourselves out of the market. It’s one
thing to complain about unauthorized copies but another thing to say
that all copies are lost sales.
http://asia.cnet.com/news/software/0,39037051,39230772,00.htm
Software industry continues to lose billions to piracy
By Eileen Yu, CNETAsia
Thursday, May 19 2005 5:46 PM
SINGAPORE--Software piracy rates may have come down, but revenue
losses continue to climb, according to a recent study released by the
Business Software Alliance.
Piracy continues to be a major challenge for the global software
market, said Jeffrey J. Hardee, Asia-Pacific vice president and
regional director, Business Software Alliance (BSA), an international
non-profit body dedicated to promoting a "legal digital world".
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Bob Frankston http://www.frankston.com
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