Mike of TechDirt editorializes in Autodesk CEO Trots Out BSA Line On Software Piracy about a claim apparently made by Autodesk CEO Carl Bass that every pirated copy of software represents a lost sale. As we read earlier this month, legal software is rarely available in China and India.
Part of the problem of lost sales is poor distribution by Autodesk and other Western software companies. Another part of the problem is Autodesk's traditional overpricing relative to regional economies -- the former CEO used to boast to financial analysts about how her company was boosting prices in Asia.
(I am affected by piracy: corporations purchase single copies of my ebooks, and then freely make copies without paying for the extras.)
If the software isn't being made available to you legally, and if a legal licence costs the equivalent of a lifetime salary, what'cha gonna do? The only legal option appears to be this:Get left behind further in your squalor, as the Western economies continue to zoom ahead.
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