Value of PC Software Theft Reaches Millions

The commercial value of unlicensed software installed on personal computers in Nigeria has reached $225 million in 2010 even as 82 percent of software deployed on PCs during the year was pirated, according to a new study by Business Software Alliance, (BSA).

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