Authorized software usage will create 6 lakh jobs

The unauthorized software copying has increased the losses to $53 billion and it has also become a bar for more employment generation. As per a study, lowering the unlicensed usage of software by 10 points for four years would create six lakh jobs world wide and around 43,000 jobs in India alone.

The findings based on a study by the research firm IDC also maintained that the restriction in such usage would also pump $3.1 billion in the economy and $200 million in tax revenues. The local vendors also bear the brunt for unauthorized software copying, as the lowering of the unlicensed software usage would bring additional $2.7 billion in revenues to them.

In 2008, the worldwide PC unauthorized copying rate rose for the second year in a row, from 38 percent to 41 percent, mainly because PC shipments grew fastest in high-unauthorized copying countries such as China and India, overwhelming progress in these and other countries. The projection has been confirmed by actual experience in China and Russia. Also, according to the study, reducing unauthorized copying by 10 points would generate $24 billion in higher government revenues without a tax increase.