Half of all software in Brazil is pirated

[Batu69]

Users continue to use counterfeit copies despite the rise of SaaS and lower pricing

 

Counterfeit copies account for 50 percent of the Brazilian software market, according to numbers from the Brazilian Association of Software Companies (ABES).

 

The number has been released as part of the National Anti-Piracy Day last week, when the Brazilian software association destroyed over 2 million fake software copies. The material had been confiscated as a result of search operations for pirated software carried out by the police over the last few years.

 

Back in the 1980s, unauthorized copies accounted for about 90 percent of the Brazilian software market. The situation has improved ever since but the country has a long way to go in terms of reducing piracy despite the rise of the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model and reduced prices, according to legal head at ABES, Manoel Antonio dos Santos.

 

"We have worked on this for more than three decades and we still have half of all computers in the country running unauthorized software. There is still a lot to be done regarding intellectual property in Brazil," Santos says.

 

The market of licensed software generates approximately $2.9bn in Brazil per year, but without piracy it would generate twice as much, according to a separate study by the Business Software Alliance.

 

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[TheRuan]

If you consider the average income here in Brazil, most power users would never be able to afford all the licenses needed, games for instance cost in average R$100(which goes around US $25), the average income here in Brazil is something around R$1.500 to 2.500, most people usually would need at least 4 licenses(without considering the games), that goes around R$300~600 just to get the basics, antivirus, system, office + another app like photoshop, cad, ...

So, would u pay about 1~2 weeks of work worth of money in licenses?

Thank god that Microsoft has dropped the prices for Windows and for Office, that will probably change the scenario in the next few years.

If Microsoft manages to get a working and good store, maybe people will decide to distribute their software through it, as a result it will become more tricky, also it should increase their sells and reduce all prices.

[VileTouch]

i think they got that wrong. it should be "Software in Brazil have 50 / 50 chance of being pirated". that doesn't neccesarily mean exactly 50% of it is indeed pirated, means you can find it anywhere, regardless of income or status.

 

but hey, i have an idea!, why don't they go find out what percentage of weapons are counterfeit in the favelas as well?. oh, that would be dangerous right? better to yap about the state of affairs of intellectual property in places where people barely scratch to survive.

funny isn't it?

[steven36]

12 hours ago, VileTouch said:

i think they got that wrong. it should be "Software in Brazil have 50 / 50 chance of being pirated". that doesn't neccesarily mean exactly 50% of it is indeed pirated, means you can find it anywhere, regardless of income or status.

 

but hey, i have an idea!, why don't they go find out what percentage of weapons are counterfeit in the favelas as well?. oh, that would be dangerous right? better to yap about the state of affairs of intellectual property in places where people barely scratch to survive.

funny isn't it?

You're right other than games that much software is not even cracked anymore like it was a few years ago . Most crackers are just cracking on private sites  they don't release it to the public any more like they once did because people are uploading there work and selling it on blogs and forums for cash .  even if they are using it  how outdated is it .  is the software really that great? And sometimes  cracks dont even work right.  so if its not that plentiful how are they pirating everything they want? pirating  you have to take  what you can get lol.

 

Interrelating  read about it by coders and crackers at tuts4you

[LeeSmithG]

14 hours ago, TheRuan said:

If you consider the average income here in Brazil, most power users would never be able to afford all the licenses needed, games for instance cost in average R$100(which goes around US $25), the average income here in Brazil is something around R$1.500 to 2.500, most people usually would need at least 4 licenses(without considering the games), that goes around R$300~600 just to get the basics, antivirus, system, office + another app like photoshop, cad, ...

So, would u pay about 1~2 weeks of work worth of money in licenses?

Thank god that Microsoft has dropped the prices for Windows and for Office, that will probably change the scenario in the next few years.

If Microsoft manages to get a working and good store, maybe people will decide to distribute their software through it, as a result it will become more tricky, also it should increase their sells and reduce all prices.

 

I have to pay the license fee and I am no better off pound for pound than a Brasilian.

I would like a lot of things in life, if I cannot afford it then I can't buy it, but will not steal.

There are no excuses for piracy.

China is another example of high piracy, I remember reading that one (1) serial key was being used on one million one hundred thousand (1,100,000) copies of office 2010 Pro.

There are plenty of free, open source, post card ware, cuddleware software to cover every ones needs. Open Office is as good as Microsoft office.

[steven36]

People should  not rob banks , sell drugs and other things but they do. Look all the money the UK waste on preventing piracy and people just fire up there VPN and download anyway or just switch isp providers . I bet you can go on the streets of London and buy any kind of illegal thing you want  . But there  more worried about putting release groups in jail than solving real  crimes. Even the Governments of the world have lost touch with reality .

[Stanners]

No big surprises here, we geo block the whole country 

[Pequi]

4 hours ago, Stanners said:

No big surprises here, we geo block the whole country 

I'd just use a nice "anonymous" American proxy.

 

That said, although I am Brazilian, most of my software is freeware/opensource/giveaways. Maybe half of my shareware I cracked myself. My OS is bought. And I spent half a month's average salary on shareware this year. So yes, we do pirate, but we deserve a credit for trying to be honest.

 

PS I retired 5 years ago, after 35 years service. Have not seen my pension yet. On a list of priorities, piracy should be at the bottom of the list. Famine, sub-employment, justice system, education, health, safety etc are the main problems. Not the ABES or RIAA.

 

[TheRuan]

On 12/17/2015 at 6:37 AM, LeeSmithG said:

 

I have to pay the license fee and I am no better off pound for pound than a Brasilian.

I would like a lot of things in life, if I cannot afford it then I can't buy it, but will not steal.

There are no excuses for piracy.

China is another example of high piracy, I remember reading that one (1) serial key was being used on one million one hundred thousand (1,100,000) copies of office 2010 Pro.

There are plenty of free, open source, post card ware, cuddleware software to cover every ones needs. Open Office is as good as Microsoft office.

Dude, you can't even compare the amount of money someone makes in England against what we get in Brazil.

There always can be excuses for anything at all, if someone is put a gun to their children's head and said do it or I will kill them, anyone would do anything.

There are free open sources yes, but no one, or almost no one uses them, therefore if u need to learn or to do something for your school, job or university it won't work, until about 2 years agora for instance the documents format used in open office if opened in microsoft office would go all crap, same the other way around.

 

Seeing black and white is easy if u have no idea what u r talking about.

On 12/17/2015 at 9:36 AM, Stanners said:

No big surprises here, we geo block the whole country 

To avoid what? Being hacked? Being trolled? proxy/vpn can always fix that ... 

So you'r doing it for nothing...

[LeeSmithG]

16 hours ago, TheRuan said:

Dude, you can't even compare the amount of money someone makes in England against what we get in Brazil.

There always can be excuses for anything at all, if someone is put a gun to their children's head and said do it or I will kill them, anyone would do anything.

There are free open sources yes, but no one, or almost no one uses them, therefore if u need to learn or to do something for your school, job or university it won't work, until about 2 years agora for instance the documents format used in open office if opened in microsoft office would go all crap, same the other way around.

 

Seeing black and white is easy if u have no idea what u r talking about.

To avoid what? Being hacked? Being trolled? proxy/vpn can always fix that ... 

So you'r doing it for nothing...

Come live in the United Kingdom, the place is rife with poverty.

People are relying on food banks to eat themselves and feed their children.

Fuel prices, keep rising, food prices and rents keep rising, it's a case of a huge divide between the rich and the poor.

Eight million (8,000,000) workers rely on some form of benefit help to make ends meet.

There is no excuse for stealing when there is so much good free and open source around.

Linux is free and the majority of the programs to run Linux are free.

[Stanners]

On 12/18/2015 at 2:43 AM, TheRuan said:

 

Seeing black and white is easy if u have no idea what u r talking about.

To avoid what? Being hacked? Being trolled? proxy/vpn can always fix that ... 

So you'r doing it for nothing...

 

We geo block whole area's around the world. The main reason is to prevent our users from downloading special things  

 

Just recently we had an attack that slipped through our email filters and the only thing that prevented it being active was the geo block.

 

In a large domain (5000 plus users) you will always get someone who clicks on that link and geo blocking has prevented multiple attacks, we learned our lesson when we had six file servers hit by ransomware. No fun restoring!

 

 

 

[Pequi]

1 hour ago, Stanners said:

 

We geo block whole area's around the world. The main reason is to prevent our users from downloading special things  

 

Just recently we had an attack that slipped through our email filters and the only thing that prevented it being active was the geo block.

 

In a large domain (5000 plus users) you will always get someone who clicks on that link and geo blocking has prevented multiple attacks, we learned our lesson when we had six file servers hit by ransomware. No fun restoring!

 

 

 

 

http://www.mxpolice.com/malware/a-global-view-of-malware-threats-which-countries-spread-them-and-which-countries-are-victimized/

 

Since most hacking groups serve their malware on OP's computers, the best places to block would be where people have more money than common sense. IOW, they buy their hardware "because they can", but rarely bother to read manuals or practice safe-hex.

I hope the article above will help you block the worst offenders.

Oh, the shame. Brazil didn't even make the list.

 

Sorry about the old link. OMG, we STILL didn't make the list

 

http://lavasoft.com/mylavasoft/securitycenter/whitepapers/lavasoft-security-bulletin-december-2015-top-threats

 

[AP1972]

We do pirate , but we deserve credit for being honest.

[steven36]

23 minutes ago, Pequi said:

 

http://www.mxpolice.com/malware/a-global-view-of-malware-threats-which-countries-spread-them-and-which-countries-are-victimized/

 

Since most hacking groups serve their malware on OP's computers, the best places to block would be where people have more money than common sense. IOW, they buy their hardware "because they can", but rarely bother to read manuals or practice safe-hex.

I hope the article above will help you block the worst offenders.

Oh, the shame. Brazil didn't even make the list.

 

Yep the great thing about if you're  a pirate  its  much safer  than it use to be most malware  is profit driven or government made were people use to just infect you for the hell of it.   There's more chance  of the company who makes you're o/s are some free proprietary software infecting you than using cracks.  I don't mind using proprietary software as long as ips or it can completely be blocked with my firewall.  But  i really don't trust  proprietary software that needs the internet  I done too much ip sniffing and see how it works too trust it lol.

[Ranma12]

cos the people dont have a lot of money