Top 10 Pirated Software List Announced
By Erna Mahyuni
Adobe and Symantec found themselves on a less-than-thrilling Top 10 list – of software most pirated. The Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) released the list as part of their 2007 Anti-Piracy Year In Review report.
Two lists were of note in the report – the 10 most frequently pirated by companies and the Top 10 most frequently pirated on the Internet. The lists are as below:
2007 Software Titles Most Frequently Pirated By Companies
1. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
2. Adobe Acrobat
3. Symantec PC Anywhere
4. Adobe PhotoShop
5. Autodesk AutoCAD
6. Adobe DreamWeaver
7. Roxio Easy CD/DVD Creator
8. Roxio Toast Titanium
9. Ipswitch WS_FTP
10. Nero Ultra Edition
2007 Software Titles Most Frequently Pirated on the Internet
1. McAfee VirusScan
2. Symantec Norton Anti-Virus
3. McAfee Internet Security Suite
4. Intuit TurboTax
5. Adobe Photoshop
6. Adobe Acrobat
7. Intuit Quicken Home and Business
8. Symantec Norton pcAnywhere
9. Symantec Norton Ghost
10. Adobe Creative Suite
You could call it a backhanded compliment – people think your software is important enough to steal it! Though you also get to wondering if Adobe’s price points have anything to do with the software maker being a prime piracy target.
Getting back to the SIIA, they’ve been pretty busy trying to protect consumers as well as prod businesses into ensuring they buy legal copies of software.
“As we continued to aggressively pursue those who illegally sell or distribute pirated software and content, we also increased our educational outreach efforts in 2007,” said Keith Kupferschmid, SIIA SVP of Intellectual Property Policy and Enforcement. “By balancing enforcement with education, SIIA was able to crack down on illegal software sales and help consumers avoid purchasing pirated software. We also made strides in helping legal, public relations and other professionals effectively do their jobs within current copyright law.”
SIIA’s Corporate Anti-Piracy program has been in operation for 20 years but of all 2007’s 427 reports of alleged corporate end-user piracy, SIIA found only 17% sufficiently reliable to pursue. Productivity software is a favourite target for pirates, which shows there is demand. Companies flouting piracy law might just find themselves warned by cases like mortgage survey company Florida Benchmark who ended up paying US$150,000. Would-be cirporate pirates, beware!
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I read this after really deciding to see what “they” would do to someone – following a question I read about on yahoo … I don’t know, but it seems that only offering your software for a huge amount of money practically invites people to obtain it illegally.