Kelvin Soh and Melanie Lee report that “Gartner estimated that software piracy rates in mainland China would fall as low as 50 percent by 2012, putting it almost on a par with rates in developed Asian markets like Hong Kong. See there Reuters article, via the MSNBC site here.
The Business Software Alliance claims the following economic benefits of lowering software piracy in China from 82 percent in 2008 to 72 percent in 2011, see here.
