According to a survey recently carried out by market intelligence and advisory firm, IDC on behalf of the Business Software Alliance (BSA), some 41% of the software used in the Republic of Ireland is pirated, meaning that almost one in every two software programs installed in Ireland is an illegal copy.
The same study found that 37% of software in use in the European Union is pirated, at an estimated cost to national and international software publishers in the region of over €8billion.
The Irish software piracy rate is above the EU average, and there are nine EU countries with a lower piracy rate than Ireland, namely: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden and the UK.
Director of IT industry body ICT Ireland, Brendan Butler, suggested that:
“Ireland’s thriving software industry is being stymied in its development due to the level of illegal use of software at home and abroad. There is no doubt that improved respect for IP would create positive effects on Ireland’s economy and the software sector through increased tax revenues and employment. Ireland needs to reduce its piracy rate dramatically to bring itself below the EU average if it is to remain attractive and competitive to other countries.”
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