Research shows that half of all software in use in Brazil is pirated

Although 50% of all software installed on computers Brazilians are still pirates, the tendency is to fall. In 2007, this index was 59%, according to the BSA, the International Association of companies in the sector. The value is still higher than that of developed countries. In the United States, this figure is 18% and in Japan, of 19%. The Brazil is better, however, than neighbors like Argentina (69%) and Venezuela (88%).
The estimation of BSA is that the market for licensed softwares move $ 2.9 billion ($ 6.4 billion) per year in Brazil-without the software pirates, it would be twice as much.
Frank Caramuru, BSA's Director in Brazil, States that one of the factors that keeps the national index is the use of unlicensed software within companies. There are both those that operate based on pirated copies as those who purchase these rights but use a number that is greater than us.
In the world, the use of pirated programs has remained stable in recent years, around 43%. Who pulls up the average developing countries or where intellectual property laws are more fragile, such as China (74%) and Indonesia (84%).
A hope for a reduction in these indexes is the growth of the market of cloud computing-in which the programs are not installed on the user's computer, but, Yes, on a server that is accessed over the internet. Examples of services that are accessible to home users are tools like Google Docs, which offers a similar Office package via the internet. The BSA estimates that almost 10 percent of the global market is already in the cloud. The trend is rapidly growing.
BSA's research is done in 34 countries. The information about the parallel trade were obtained from crossing of data from interviews with 22 thousand consumers and commercial users of PCs and 2,000 information technology managers.