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This article was published on November 13, 2015 at 11:35.
The software pirate does a roaring trade in Italy. According to estimates of BSA (Business Software Alliance), the association for the protection of the industry, 48% of Italian companies using pirated software, against the average of 34% attested elsewhere in Europe. An illegal business that in Italy is around US $ 2 billion and that has skyrocketed over the past five years, also reimbursements owed by companies and especially SMEs to software companies (+ 200%).
If the 30% of Italians illegally download from the web audio, video or pirated software, and 60% is at least permissible or tolerable do (data Lorien Consulting a few months ago) is not surprising that yesterday the Police Finance has dislodged, in 9 provinces Italian, 13 companies that were using counterfeit software. With the operation “Underlicensing”, the military of the Special Protection of Intellectual Property of the Guardia di Finanza (in collaboration with the BSA in the area of licensing) conducted inspections in 22 carpet companies in the fields of design, fashion, construction and architecture between Turin, Milan, Bergamo, Bologna, Udine, Rome, Pesaro, Florence and Bari. Thirteen companies were using, on their computers, 144 programs downloaded or duplicated in violation of the law on copyright. Among the programs most “pirated”, Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft, Ashampo, Robert McNeel & amp; Associates.
Imposed penalties for about 280 thousand euro.
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