In the BSA report, Russia is named by a country with the highest indicators of software piracy

In the new report of the Business Software Alliance software manufacturers, Russia with the highest performance of software piracy is named Russia. Further in this rating, Türkiye, Brazil and Mexico are included. In the same countries, the highest indicators of malware infection are also observed, reports cnews.ru .

41% of all programs installed on personal computers in the world are pirate. The most popular methods of spreading pirate software are downloading through a P2P network, copying the installation disk, transmission on a hard drive or flash drive.

According to BSA experts, losses inflicted by the piracy of the software industry are $ 53 billion a year. Thus, for each industry earned by the industry, there are 3-4 dollars of missed income.

However, pirate in terms of not only illegal - it can also harm user computers. Since many people download unlicensed software through the P2P networks and file-sharing services, this often leads to infection of their PC malicious files, the fighters with counterfeit.

About 25% of websites offering users unlicensed software are also engaged in the spread of malicious or undesirable in their users, the report said.