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Story: EU anti-piracy directive heads for final vote
Posted by: Richard Lee (Thursday 26 February 2004, 10:22 PM)
A lot of software *pirated* in use in businesses are a result of one person having a piece of software which an other wants to use, so they just install it. Cutting down on this justs cuts down the use of that software.
I have noticed this with Office XP & 2003. Where before small companies would install the latest version of Office on all computers, they now don't. The number of extra software licences brought as a result is small.
While the small number of extra licences will add up for a package like Office, the same logic will not work with most other software. If they can't install the software, people either use it on the machine of the person who has it or do without.
In otherwords, if you halved the amount of *pirated* software you would probably increase revenues by no more than a few percent.
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