Software piracy is a rising problem not only in the United States, but around the world. In 1993 worldwide software piracy cost 12.5 billion dollars to the software industry, with a loss of 2.2 billion dollars in the United States alone. Estimates show that over 40 percent of U.S. software company revenues are generated overseas, yet nearly 85 percent of the software industry's piracy losses occurred outside of the United States borders. The Software Publishers Association indicated that approximately 35 percent of the business software in the United States were obtained illegally, which 30 percent of the piracy occurs in corporate settings. In a corporate setting or business, every compute
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