Sales of pirated software and pirated music and DVD in Moscow significantly - such conclusion experts of the Commission on Information Security Market (Kbir) of the Government of Moscow. If at the beginning of 2005, the monthly sales of pirate CDs with the software is up to 130 million rubles., Now the amount by half, "Kommersant" back. Experts link the decline in retail sales of stolen software in the development of residential broadband Internet and the growth of online transactions with fake products. Monitoring of the market of pirated software performed Kbir In recent months of 2005 were unexpected results. For the first time in Moscow in 1998, the sale of counterfeit software has not increased but, on the contrary, seriously diminished. For the year retail sales of pirated software currently dropped by 50%. After Kbir, Moscow now has 812 points, which is sold illegal software. Every month, they sold more than 850 thousand ROM. Revenue pirates. Of its sales from 68 to 85,000,000 rubles per month. The decline in retail sales determine stolen software and other anti-piracy organizations. "The fact that as sale of illegal copies of software in retail, obviously all the more so as the decline of 50%, -. The head of the anti-piracy organization" Russian Shield "Yuri Zlobin -. Main reason - the development of broadband access and home networking have free access to programs, music and video. "According to the company J` Son & Partners, in September 2005, on the broadband line connected 540,000 Moscow households. For the year, the number of broadband subscribers increased 115%. With estimates of experts agreed and the pirates themselves. "At the beginning of the year, we sold about 70 on some days up to 100 discs with software - together with Kommersant owner of the tent, not far from Savelovsky radio market -. The biggest profit comes from DVD of three, six, eight movies this kind of. market reaction to the traditional media, the Internet offer, bought, you have a disc with four movies at once -. need and not their watches on network tap image quality is comparable to a computer, and the sound is better ".. To emphasize specialists to fight piracy, that the fight against online piracy - Employment conceptually difficult than fighting retail counterfeiting. According to Mr. Zlobin available online over a thousand. Of resources from which you can download free software Their owners do not charge a fee for downloading software: Put the latest software to increase the number of visits they make to the site and money through advertising. "To fight with such agents is much more complicated than the retail piracy - says the head of the" Russian missile shield -. There are times that the site is registered in Israel, its suppliers from Australia, and the owner -. The Chinese Come by Russian police, the prosecuting authorities of the three countries, contact. "Experts point out that the development of the music pirates online sales hit even harder than the software. Monthly volume of retail market of illegal MP3 records that was in the early years in Moscow about 195 million rubles. per month, depending on Kbir declined 60%. The market participants are recording at these estimates agree. "Last year, the network has to sell a variety of online stores, music, both officially and illegally - a leading expert told Kommersant news agency InterMedia Alexander Tikhonov. - In Russia, this niche is already being used by pirates, the price of illegal music online at least three times less than the legal pages - $ .03 to 0.3 "on pirate sites to $ 0.99 in legal comparison. "The same thing could happen soon the DVD, - said the deputy director of marketing at NVision Group Sergey Golovin - now download movies from the Internet is expensive: The traffic can be more expensive than a pirate disc downloaded and the quality is poor K.. In addition to hardware, allowing a quality fit to play movies from the Internet, it is often worth more expensive than a DVD player. But as the technology of video and expand the capacity of the DVD market collapses, unable to withstand competition . "
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