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Business Software Alliance blames China for ‘piracy’
PROFESSIONAL COMPLAINER, the Business Software Alliance has warned that software firms are losing precious extra money to the spectre of Chinese 'pirates', something that most of us have acknowledged for some time.
Robert Holleyman, president and CEO of the Business Software Alliance told the Financial Times that so far anything that the Chinese government had done or tried to do to stop the sale of illegally copied copyrighted material had failed.
"All that activity led us to believe that we'd see some fairly rapid reduction of software piracy in China," said Holleyman. "But none of what I've picked up with our companies indicates that they're seeing the kind of economic growth associated with the sales of software."
Those companies include powerhouses like Microsoft where every year small children go without shoes so that Chinese people can make powerful business presentations and send emails on the cheap.
Holleyman added, "While [copyright infringement as a] percentage of total software sales is coming down somewhat, the US$ losses are exploding," and suggested that multinational software houses will launch more legal action against Chinese counterfeiters as they act to do what poster campaigns and finger wagging has failed to achieve, a national lock down on illegal copying.
According to BSA's 2011 Global Piracy Report, over three quarters of the software sold in China should come with an eyepatch and a parrot. µ
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All so called IP legislation is Corporatist anti-competitive state interference in the market, thus Anti-Capitalist. It is an offensive delusion based on the stagnation cesspool of centralist and technocratic dogma
The BSA are just a Corporatist mafia-like organisation sponsored by corrupt/stagnant big business, thus the Chinese are right to shun them.
If you publish or sell something in the public, fine; however once you make something public, you should not expect any protection from copying because that stifles iterative & compositional experimentation, thus stifles rapid innovation for better products.
Much big business still seems stuck in dated industrial revolution ideas about assembly line mass production; this is stupid now that we have more flexible technologies like cell machining and 3D printing. Several of the better products I own were made by CNC machine tools.
Software is even more flexible, but too much has got bogged down in monolithic and proprietary architectures.
When did people stop buying Microsoft products?
"If countries stop buying their crap products then they will change their ways."
No, M$ goes on the same way! Not buying M$'s CRAP products has NO visible effect on their prices or performance. See how that completely subverts your assertion? M$ is too big -- has a monopoly -- and thus isn't affected by even LARGE SCALE piracy (several hundred million if we take the figure above as accurate) that doesn't pay M$ a cent. Similarly, you need to adjust your views to the actuality of /this/ century: China has effective monopolies on much manufacturing. The West /can't/ quit buying from China, it'd collapse the system.
The only thing China understands is a loss of revenue from exports. If countries stop buying their crap products then they will change their ways.