UK software piracy rate shows no improvement

Caroline Donnelly
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Channel will bear the brunt as piracy level stays at 27 per cent in 2009, IDC and BSA joint study claims

The UK was found to have the sixth-lowest piracy rate out of the countries studied The level of software piracy in the UK has remained flat in the past year, claims a joint study by the IDC and B...

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