Software Piracy Is Widespread, More than a third of the applications installed on PCs worldwide are illegal, study says.

Is your software legal?

Grant Gross, IDG News Service explains further..

More than a third of the software installed on PCs worldwide during 2004 was pirated, with losses from unauthorized software increasing by $4 billion from 2003, according to a study released this week by the software trade group Business Software Alliance.
Thirty-five percent of all software installed on PCs was pirated, down from 36 percent in 2003, according to the study, conducted by research firm IDC.

This report is something you should seriously consider as it has a dramatic economic impact worldwide.