ONTARIO'S SOFTWARE PIRACY RATE REACHES ALL-TIME LOW
But Problem Still Costs Ontarians Over $1 Billion Annually In Lost Wages
TORONTO, ON - The Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft (CAAST), an industry alliance of software publishers, today released a study that places Ontario's software piracy rate at 35.5 per cent, the lowest rate the province has had in four straight years. The province's piracy rate is almost four points below the national average of 39.4 per cent, ranking it as the second lowest in the country after Alberta.
The independent study, conducted for CAAST and the Business Software Alliance (BSA) by International Planning and Research Corporation (IPR), indicates that in 2002, Ontario lost $210 million in retail sales of business software applications due to software piracy as well as $1 billion in wage and salary losses and 13,000 jobs.
"While Ontario is showing excellent progress in its fight against software piracy, the impact that software piracy continues to have on the local economy cannot be ignored," said Jacquie Famulak, president CAAST. "Despite having one of the lowest piracy rates in Canada, Ontario accounts for 51 per cent of the impact of dollar losses due to piracy. As a province with a significant software industry, Ontario must continue to be diligent in preventing software piracy from becoming an even greater economic burden."
The ranking of provincial piracy rates, starting with the highest, is: Prince Edward Island (65.3%), Newfoundland (61.5%), Nova Scotia (53.3%), Saskatchewan and Yukon (53.1% each), British Columbia (47.4%), New Brunswick (40.5%), Manitoba (39.6%), Quebec (38.6%), Northwest Territories and Nunavut (36.6%), Ontario (35.5%) and Alberta (33.6%).
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Software piracy in Canada
Prince Edward Islanders are notorious software thieves, an industry group said today while one in three copies of business software in use in Canada's most populous province, Ontario, is a counterfeit. These findings are from the Canadian Alliance Against Software Theft, the Canadian chapter of the Business Software Alliance. Some excerpts from the provincial software piracy study press release are below:
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