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Article: Software piracy on the wane in the Netherlands.(according to Business Software Alliancw)(Brief Article)
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- June 4, 2003
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The illegal use of software in the Netherlands fell last year by three percentage points to 36 per cent, and 28 per cent since 1994, reports the Business Software Alliance, BSA.
In the eight years, the anti-piracy association has been tracking this threat to the computer software industry, software piracy worldwide has also decreased from 49 percent to 39 percent in 2002.
According to the BSA, this decline is attributed to the growing belief among company software-users that software piracy, measured in lost ...