High-tech and copyright trade groups recommended Friday that 58 countries be put on a list that singles out nations with low standards in protecting intellectual property.
Topping the proposed list, according to the International Intellectual Property Alliance, should be Ukraine, followed by Paraguay; China; Philippines; Uruguay; and Russia.
Ukraine has developed into a major producer and exporter of pirated CDs, the alliance said. Little progress in ending the activity has been made since June, when President Clinton and Ukraine President Kuchma signed an agreement pledging reforms and enforcement. |
As a result of all this piracy, the BSA calculated big losses for the industry:
The Business Software Alliance estimates that more than $12 billion in revenue was lost last year to software piracy. The U.S. economy loses $22 billion annually among all copyrighted industries. |
Source: Techweb
