VietNamNet Bridge - According to a new report, Vietnam's software piracy rate in 2007 registered in at 88 per cent, down from 92 per cent in 2004. However, despite its slight improvement the figure is still far too high.
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) presented the new figures during a recent conference in Danang, and warned that the country's high level of software piracy was negatively impacting the economy.
According to a report by IDC-EXPAND released earlier this year, the IT sector's contribution to the economy would grow if the software piracy rate were to fall 10 percentage points over the next four years, a move that would create an additional 1,900 jobs, garner $623 million in local industry revenues and an additional $31 million in tax revenues.
Some experts argue that the slight reduction in software piracy over the last few years was mainly the result of government and business efforts to buy copyrighted software, particularly from Microsoft. The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Information and Communication, Vietnam Post and Telecommunications, FPT, Vietcombank and most recently Vietinbank each bought thousands of dollars worth of Microsoft software, however, legal copies of the same software are often too expensive for smaller companies.
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The Business Software Alliance (BSA) presented the new figures during a recent conference in Danang, and warned that the country's high level of software piracy was negatively impacting the economy.
According to a report by IDC-EXPAND released earlier this year, the IT sector's contribution to the economy would grow if the software piracy rate were to fall 10 percentage points over the next four years, a move that would create an additional 1,900 jobs, garner $623 million in local industry revenues and an additional $31 million in tax revenues.
Some experts argue that the slight reduction in software piracy over the last few years was mainly the result of government and business efforts to buy copyrighted software, particularly from Microsoft. The Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Information and Communication, Vietnam Post and Telecommunications, FPT, Vietcombank and most recently Vietinbank each bought thousands of dollars worth of Microsoft software, however, legal copies of the same software are often too expensive for smaller companies.
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