In the kenyan market alone, microsoft estimates the proportion of pirated software to be 78% with a commercial value of 12 billion kenyan shillings about 120 million dollars. Game of thrones most pirated show for the fifth year running. Pieter smals blog solving the problem of piracy in the. Thats because windows is by far the most widely used operating system in the world, so it also has the most supported software.
Piracy is exploding in the worlds most heavily trafficked commercial waterway, and organized crime is the force behind it. At 90 percent, libya and zimbabwe are the two countries with highest use of unlicensed software, the report said. I installed with that dvd in the new laptop i purchased, the license wasnt valid. The united states has the largest market for software, spending 42 billion, and the lowest piracy rate at 19%. Which countries pirate the most expensive software. According to the source, the united states had the highest number of media piracy site visits, with. Pornography is the most pirated item on web with 35. The most pirated television program, game of thrones, is restricted to foxtel, which has only a 30% penetration rate in australian households. The top 20 countries using pirated or unlicensed software. The top 10 piracy havens is completed by serbia, ireland, romania and sweden. Latvia comes out on top with a massive 46% of the internet users visiting pirate sites, followed by bulgaria, lithuania, croatia, spain and greece. Deadpool most pirated film of 2016 ahead of batman v superman this article is more than 3 years old superhero movies dominate list of illegal downloads as boxoffice takings for warcraft and.
Trade group names top 10 pirated software informationweek. Causes and costs of security threats from pirated software. Muso contacted variety to clarify that the data did not say that the grand tour was the most pirated show ever, but rather the most pirated british tv program as well as the. What european consumers fear most from infectious pirated software 96% of consumers expressed worries about infected mislicensed or pirated software being underlicensed means using legitimate software on more pcs than licensed to use. Software piracy rate, % software installed tcdata360. Online piracy in numbers facts and statistics infographic. It has been another solid year of piracy, with statistics revealing the 10 most illegally downloaded shows of the year. Torrentfreak has released its annual list of the 10 most pirated tv programs of 2017, and game of thrones is in the top spot for the sixth year in a. In 2016, 57 million americans were still pirating music in one form or. The ten countries most affected by terrorism forbes. Software piracy rates and value by country business insider.
Regardless of your view on piracy, it is still hotly up for debate, but theres little uncertainty about its resulting financial damage. The takeaway here is that while a greater percentage of individuals in nonu. Microsoft settles thousands of software piracy cases. Countries like china, india, russia, and indonesia have higher rates of unlicensed use but the value is a lot less. Software piracy is a recognized global problem and three in five personal computers pcs in asia pacific were found to be using nongenuine software in 2016. Deadpool most pirated film of 2016 ahead of batman v. Most countries still have unlicensed software rates of 50% or higher. Top 20 countries for software piracy and license misuse 2017. On pc its only around five to seven percent of the. Global trade in fake goods worth nearly half a trillion. In fact, all of the 10 countries with the highest online piracy rates are in europe. Piracy in third world countries is a prevalent criminal activity. Software piracy is a very interesting issue that is being dealt with in the united states. Why do indians always use pirated versions of windows.
Ninety percent or more of the software used in those countries was pirated. Because of the money lost to pirates, publishers have fewer resources to devote to research and development of new products, have less revenue to justify lowering software prices and are forced to pass. Game of thrones has been the most pirated tv show for four consecutive years. The countries where people steal the most software. This statistic contains the most most pirated movies based on the share of overall piracy activity that occurred involving each title in third quarter of 2016. Zimbabwe is the world champion of pirating software techzim. Greece has the highest yearonyear average growth rate at 1. I have original windows 7 dvd purchased at rs 7000. Piracy is most rampant in countries with emerging economies. The who country health profile of india provides key statistics and links to health topical databases, plus news, features and bulletin journal articles on the health issues of the country. One of the most popular types of media piracy is video piracy and, in spain and canada, over a third of consumers admit to watching pirated content. Even though most countries in asia have improved their control of software piracy, the highpiracy countries. Global number of visits to media piracy sites by country 2018.
Game of thrones is the mostpirated tv show in the world, according to a fourweek snapshot of online piracy shown to the guardian the hit hbo show, returning for its fourth season on monday. Idm wins this list because it is the most pirated nonmicrosoft software. The government has been implementing very strict measures against software piracy. On average, software piracy has increased in the asiapacific region to 61 percent of total devices in 2015 from 59 percent in 2009 bsa, the software alliance, 2016. How software piracy could affect the economy san jose.
Number of media piracy site visits worldwide 2018, by country. The software piracy rate reports the proportion of installed software that is pirated. Professional software often developed in the united states and europe are. Countries using the most pirated software, according to idc, are vietnam, ukraine, china, and zimbabwe. Top 10 most pirated movies of the week torrentfreak.
It also reveals key attitudes and behaviors related to software licensing, intellectual property, and emerging technologies based on a global survey of more than 24,000. Most music students cannot afford r 4 107 for a yearly subscription of protools. Some of the most popular films and music that are created today in studios are available in pirated versions on the internet today. Statistics show that there are rates of software piracy in countries like armenia. Although viewing an online stream of a movie might seem legal because there are no actual downloads taking place at first, the fact remains that. However, the government is putting in efforts to reduce software piracy which will ultimately lead to lots of benefits discussed above. I first used it more than a decade ago, and nothing much has changed in terms of its user interface in the last ten years.
The top three countries with the highest piracy rates are venezuela at 88 percent, indonesia at 86 percent, and china at 77 percent. Software piracy claims can ruin your business and reward. A change in the winds for software piracy epicenter. Learn more about the top 20 countries for software piracy and license misuse. Most famously, in 2012, ubisoft ceo yves guillemot made waves by claiming that 93% of pc players are pirates who dont pay for games. Software titles most pirated by companies last year include symantec norton antivirus, adobe acrobat, autodesk autocad, roxio easy cddvd creator, and others. Bsas global software survey conducted in partnership with idc, estimates the volume and value of unlicensed software installed on personal computers in 2015, across more than 110 national and regional economies. The ten worst affected countries in 2015 were all in the middle east, asia and africa and, in almost all cases, it was islamist extremists who were responsible for most of the deaths the one. Piracy statistics for 2020 people would still download a car dataprot. It takes into account both commercial and opensource programs. Pirated software is a major source for malware infections. Most of this software ends up on african markets because of the high cost of buying the original versions.
Russia and the ukraineother cis countries continued to have the highest piracy rates in. Here are three of the most egregious practices that i have seen software trade associations use consistently, at the expense of businesses across the country. Piracy, and intellectual property in general, is a contentious issue between developed states and the rest of the world. The top 10 most downloaded movies on bittorrent are in again. But, at the moment the stats say that software piracy is at no. The most pirated software is mostly one that runs on windows. Top 20 countries for software piracy and license misuse. Consequences of software piracy the losses suffered as a result of software piracy directly affect the profitability of the software industry. However, using pirated software expose users to a plethora of cyber threats. A new study by fenlon 2016 revealed that pc gamers from the poorest classes. Working to protect its intellectual property, the tech giant settled 3,265 counterfeiting suits worldwide during the past year. The rest of the top 20 is filled out with seven other european countries including france, italy and germany, along with several other north american countries, australia, and a handful of other.