Business Software Alliance (BSA) published its annual global software piracy results. Piracy rates fell in almost all the countries. There were only very few countries that showed increase in piracy, that to very little. The two main countries US and Canada saw a rise of one percent in piracy rate. BSA calculates piracy rates by estimating the total amount of software deployed in a market, subtracting the amount of software sold in the area over the same period, and the result is called piracy loss. Though the process is flawed, as BSA estimates rather then having real data. But it gave a very important result that piracy is steadily falling around the world.  Even though piracy rate fell, losses in dollar amount increased. BSA estimated that software companies lost $14 billion in piracy last year, again this estimate is calculated using the same flawed method. We have to understand that BSA has a small personal agenda here, as the software companies that want stricter rules against piracy fund it.
[Via Ars Technica]