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In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of the software industry’s piracy losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the business software in the United States was obtained illegally, which 30 percent of the piracy occurs in corporate settings. In a corporate …

…keep decoding and finding ways to make illegal copies of software to sell or use for themselves. February 27, 2001 Bibliography: Brandel, William, “Licensing stymies users,” URL: http://www.viman.com/license/license.html#policy, Viman Software, INC., 1994. Business Software Alliance, “Software Piracy and the Law,” URL:”http://www.bsa.org/bsa/docs/soft_pl.html”, Business Software Alliance, 1995. Software Publishers Association, “SPA Anti-Piracy Backgrounder,” URL:”http://www.spa.org.piracy/pi_back.html”, Software Publishers Association, 1995.