Every fourth Russia’s shop selling pirated software
February 9, 2010 – 2:18 am 
25% of outlets in Russia selling illegal software production Microsoft, with 11% and also offer services to install pirated software on your computer buyer.
About this newspaper Vedomosti with reference to these studies, conducted by Russia’s department of Microsoft.
range studied was 2,5 thousand retail outlets in 53 cities of Russia.
problematic region the company calls the Far East, as well as some cities in Central and North-West federal districts. Millionaire cities with the highest penetration of pirated software in the retail trade were Yekaterinburg (41%), Chelyabinsk (30%) and Moscow (27%).
According to the Microsoft, a role in growth of piracy in the country played an economic crisis, but in the whole country increased penetration of illegal software has not been dramatic. However, these studies indicate that neither high incomes of Muscovites, not widely available broadband Internet access, failed to root out pirated disk retail, as predicted a few years ago. Repressive measures also do not have the desired result.
Monthly turnover Moscow retail selling pirated software, is now about 240 million, the newspaper reported, citing the assessment of anti-piracy association “Russian Shield”. President of the Association Yuri Zlobin said in Moscow that legal products are sold only about a hundred stores (10% market share), while Microsoft believes that the capital has a “great offer both licensed and unlicensed software.”
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