So, according to "Seventh Illegal Software Survey," conducted by IDC and the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the piracy rate in Argentina was reduced by 2% last year. In 2008 it was illegal for 73% of software installed, it is illegal today in Argentina only 71% of the software.
RedUSERS got this first in a luncheon yesterday in Puerto Madero with Dr. Maria de Montserrat Guitart Piguillem, the law firm of Carranza Torres & Associates, which represents the BSA in Argentina. Why
down piracy
According to the study, the causes of the decline of piracy are
1. The acquisition of notebooks grew 35%. These, unlike the clones, almost all of them are original operating system.
2. The programs of the software vendors to encourage legalization.
3. Legal actions by the BSA.
Ok, here's the good news until now the bad
1. Despite the reduction in the percentage of unlicensed software, rose anyway sector losses estimated at USD 645 million in the year, placing us the third largest Latin American economic loss. In 2008 the losses had been for $ 202 million. This is due to the increased installed base of PCs
2. The level of 71% of pirated software in Argentina is still well above the global average of 43%.
OK, so now ...
wonder why piracy is so high in Argentina?
And these are the three main causes according to IDC:
1. Cultural: in our country do not respect intellectual property laws and do not respect many others.
2. High penetration of broadband.
3. Baja renewal of equipment that come with legal operating systems.
anti-piracy command step
We asked Dr. Piguillem to tell us how the approximately 300 legal actions made his study in the last year. This is what I understood:
1. The BSA sent to Carranza Torres Studio suspicious companies in our country, whether by complaints received by the BSA website or from any of its partners, which include companies like Adobe, Apple, Corel, Microsoft, Symantec and Autodesk. For example, a company that graduated 100 Windows for 5 years and did not pay license fees since, is suspected.
2. If the study will send a summons to the company to pay its software, this probably will delete, so the issues of piracy is possible to pave the company for evidence, even before there is a process. But Dr. Cordoba sympathetic justify "having 71% of piracy, the probability of being right is only in 3 out of 10 cases." The search involved police officers and computer experts, in the same drawing up a list of trucho software that the company has installed.
3. Now comes the injunction, which sought compensation for affected companies to twice the value of licenses in respect lost profits and other damages.
4. Usually reach a settlement. Failure copy
To illustrate with an actual case, Dr. Piguillem expanded on a ruling that considered exemplary
In October 2009 the Civil Court of First Instance on Commercial and Mining 3 of Bariloche, Carlos Marcelo Cuellar, decided to order the signature Panatelas SA, owner of an exclusive hotel in Bariloche, to pay more than $ 77,498 in compensation plus interest at 18% per annum and court costs in excess of $ 100,000 pesos to the developer software, finding that the company had installed on multiple computers one of the hotels, at least 43 software products without the relevant license agreements, including punitive damages that figure as "Whoever knowingly violates intellectual property rights must respond fatally quality and qualified by the fact that single fact. I do think it a plus on the mere repair of lost profits. "
Conclusion
piracy actions are clearly a very profitable business. Sure, find illegal software on Argentine companies is like fishing in an aquarium. Study Carranza Torres to incorporate people, with offices in Cordoba, Buenos Aires and have just opened one in Bogotá. When we point the lucrative business to Dr. Piguillem, we answer with the firm conviction of a person to act for the good of society, "the real deal that piracy would disappear."
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