[IP] The software industry is learning from the RIAA?

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Bob Frankston <Bob19-0501@bobf.frankston.com>
Date: May 19, 2005 8:10:31 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
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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