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Full coverage: Southern Africa
December 2006
12.12.2006
Trade losses to software manufacturers due to piracy are as high as $125 billion. We need to interrogate why piracy of software, books, music etc exists as a market phenomenon. Could it be an organic market reaction to the exclusion of consumers by copyright industries? Lawrence Liang and Achal Prabhala take an indepth look into the prevailing market trends and consumer behaviour.
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Related topics/regions:
[South Africa]
[India]
[civil society & ICT]
[economy]
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