Thirty-five percent of the packaged software installed on personal computers (PC) worldwide in 2005 was illegal, amounting to $34 billion in global losses due to software piracy. 

However, some improvements in a number of markets indicate education, enforcement and policy efforts are beginning to pay off in emerging economies such as China, Russia and India and in Central/Eastern Europe and the Middle East & Africa.  

These are among the findings of an annual global PC software piracy study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance (BSA) and conducted commissioned by IDC, the information technology (IT) industry’s leading global market research and forecasting firm.