Only 14% of Italians consider software piracy a “crime be pursued” and 60% illegally downloading video and music web is “normal” or at most “a venial sin.” While 22% say they ignore that it is illegal. And ‘what emerges from the data collected by Lorien Consulting as part of the Observatory on the attitude of the Italian National Policy on respect for intellectual property, presented today by the Business Software Alliance (BSA).
31 % of people who responded to the survey, conducted on a representative sample of 1,000 people, also admits to having “dropped something” (video, music or software) and these, according to the Observatory, you should probably also add 9% those who do not admit nor deny. Among the motivations of illegal behavior, 58% of respondents said that so download movies, music and software “is more comfortable and easier”; 23% say instead of doing it “because the legal products cost too much” and 4% “because you do not risk anything,” or “it’s hard to be discovered.”
“The findings of the Observatory conducted on the basis national Lorien – detects Simonetta Moreschini, president of BSA Italy the conclusions to which we also conduct research by BSA internationally. Still you have to do much to change a shared culture that unfortunately is still far from considering the legality of the use software a social good and a multiplier of economic development “.
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