Engineering Student in India arrested for hacking music website and making pirated CDs

For those who want to justify piracy in Music, movies and software in India with a reasoning that it feeds many poors in one of the poorest countries in the world; then the recent arrest of an engineering student in Rajkot, Gujarat (a western province of India) should make them think again.

An engineering student in Rajkot was arrested by Mumbai police(Police of the neighboring province of Maharashtra) on charges of hacking a Mumbai-based music company’s website. Preliminary investigations revealed that Kalpesh Patel, 22, a native of Jamnagar and studying in the final year at an Engineering college at Rajkot, hacked the website of a music company and made pirated CDs of songs and films.

Now the arrest of this engineering student, doesn't really point that he did so to feed himself. That apart, if he had hacked the website to test his skills; then probably he would have stopped at hacking itself and also informing the website of the security hole. But creating pirated copies points to the question of morality. But Patel shouldn't be blamed entirely, Indian education seldom teaches students this important Life skill, nor do most parents.

Sharp brains and parents should think over this (morality question). ---------

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Engineering Student in India arrested for hacking music website and making pirated CDs

Anil Singh Monday, July 4, 2011

Software piracy in India Declines, At $2.7 bn in 2010

While there has been an increase in the global rate of software piracy, India has shown a marginal decline in the same for the year 2010.

The commercial value of software piracy grew by 14 per cent globally last year to a record total of USD 58.8 billion. However, in India, it declined to 64 per cent from 65 per cent in 2009, according to the 2010 BSA Global Software Piracy Study.

BSA estimates show that the commercial value of unlicensed software installed on personal computers in India touched USD 2.739 billion in 2010, whereas the globally it stood at USD 59 billion.

The country which has the piracy rate in the world is Georgia, Georgia, a country disintegrated from former USSR, has a piracy rate of 93 per cent (93 out of 100 software being used in the country are pirated), while the lowest was observed in the US, Japan and Luxembourg at 20 per cent.

Among its neighbors, India appears clean. The piracy rate in India’s neighboring countries is higher -- Bangladesh (90 per cent), Sri Lanka (86 per cent) and Pakistan (84 per cent).

Although the study doesn’t reveal the break-up of the market segments accounting for the most piracy, most of the losses to industry from piracy are due to the illegitimate use of software by business houses.

Overall India has fared well in the area of Piracy (how much it’s because of Government initiative and how much it’s because of end user awareness, can’t be said). India's piracy rate has dropped from 75 percent in the year 2004, to 65 percent in 2010.

The study has said that the efforts from the Government side are positive – when one considers highly populous country’s overburdened courts, and piracy supporting a large number of people in the unorganized sector. ---------

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Software piracy in India Declines, At $2.7 bn in 2010

Anil Singh Friday, May 13, 2011

Global Music Industry says 95% of all music downloads are illegal

The global music industry is to publish a report calling on governments to be more proactive to stop internet piracy. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) has told the BBC that as much as 95% of all music downloads are illegal.

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Global Music Industry says 95% of all music downloads are illegal

Anil Singh Thursday, January 20, 2011

Software Piracy rises Worldwide

By A Bisht


The software piracy continues to rise worldwide. Consider the following numbers:

According to a Business Software Alliance (BSA) report,

Compared to the previous year, now 41 out of every hundred softwares used are pirated. Last year this number was 38.

A 7.89 percent growth over last year.

The amount of money lost in sales revenue due to software piracy is $ 50.2 billion worldwide.

The countries with the lowest piracy (near 20 percent) are:
Japan
New Zealand
Luxembourg

The countries with the highest piracy (more than 90 percent) are:
Armenia
Bangladesh
Georgia
Zimbabwe

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Software Piracy rises Worldwide

Anil Singh Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Less than 43% of companies are using fully-licensed Windows

A study done by the Harrison Group Inc. but paid by Microsoft, says that companies that are using unlicensed copies of Windows Operating Systems are more likely to experience system crashes and loss of data.

Companies with PCs between 24 and 500—are more likely to have such problems.

The researching company reached on these conclusions after interviewing people from 1600 companies in the US, the UK, China and Brazil.

At the time of survey, out of the total companies surveyed – only 43 % were using fully-licensed software.

NOTE: Fully Licensed Software take experience to a new higher level, in terms of reduced hassles. 

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Less than 43% of companies are using fully-licensed Windows

Mr Bisht Saturday, October 4, 2008