Singapore software alert
p2pnet.net News:- The IDG New Service’s Singapore bureau has an interesting interview with Tarun Sawney, director of the corporate software industry’s anti-piracy faux police actions in Asia-Pacific.
Singapore’s software piracy rate is relatively low, says the story, but the Business Software Alliance, “wants to see it driven even lower”.
So what’s the problem, given that in Singapore as in other countries around the world, the industry has powerful friends and connections within the local administrative and police agencies?
Are wicked file sharers behind it all?
“We did a survey on the Internet and we found that the two most popular ways of downloading in Asia are BitTorrent and eDonkey,” IDG quotes Sawney as saying.
“We found that eDonkey is popular because it’s so darn easy to use … and BitTorrent is so efficient, in terms of being able to get stuff.”
eDonkey and BitTorrent, former p2p independents, have both been swallowed whole by the music and movie cartels. BT is now establisihed as a corporate distribution and delivery system, and eDonkey is well on the way to becoming the same.
“There will always be a market for the discs, no matter what’s available on the Internet,” says Sawney in the IDG story. “It will always be there.
“But you’re right. We’ve certainly seen a shift to the Internet, becoming more and more the avenue for people to get their hands on software. The interesting thing that we found from our research in the U.S. was that most people will not download software if they felt there was a danger their computers would be damaged as a result, through downloading Trojans or viruses.
“That’s a reason we feel there will always be a market for discs.”
Also See:
IDG New Service - BSA: More Police Action Needed in Singapore, October 30, 2006
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November 10th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
Microsoft are really running out of money