Who steals software? Interesting results.
 

Surfing the web, I found statistic of Astalavista. Astalavista, with about milion cracks to search in, is one of the biggest hacker's guides. Try to search for crack on the software you wrote there. You'll be surprised, how easy it is use it without spending a cent.
Too check these stats, click here

Most visitors comes from US. I thought, that Russians will be the #1, but there are almost no former USSR countries at the top. Well-developed country probably doesen't mean less stealing.

Also interesting fact is, that almost everytime I reloaded the main stats with last 10 visitors, there was at least 1 University between them. I thought, that state-owned institutions won't steal software.

This page should be also interesting for SW police to find companies stealing SW. I don't know, why astalavista uses public counter.

so which ones did you download? :Graucho

That site is huge and has been around forever...

astalavista rocks my world. so much useful info on there. :Graucho

What're you smoking? You do know that there are college students who download hacks and cracks, etc. right?

Students pirating software? Oh My GOD! What is the world coming too??!

:1orglaugh

Never happened. :glugglug

All college students are honest and mature, and have way too much pride and integrity to steal software.

Astalavista.com has the following demographics:


46% are 18-34 year old
84% are male
35% completed College Grad
42% work in IT industry
36% are students
42% are US residents
85% bookmarked our site
53% spend more than 11 hours using the Internet (in a week)
47% visit our site several times a week

It is not necessary for Russians to download cracks. I can go and buy cracked software on CD for 2$! It's fucking pirates industry... But what can we do, if Windows copy costs more than usual salary in Russia? :(

Well-developed country = a lot more people on the internet = a lot more people using software = a lot more people looking for cracks. Give it some thought. Raw numbers mean nothing.

Huh? It's the students that go to the schools, not the schools themselves.

A) Surfing to Astalavista does not make you guilty of piracy. I clicked the link in your message and I didn't download any cracks. Even downloading a crack doesn't mean you actually stole any software. It's circumstantial and won't get you convicted of anything.

B) Why not use a public counter? They are a search engine, that's all. Why should they be hiding their stats?

SpaceAce

Canada is number 8. Because we only have about 38 people with internet connections.