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With expansion of knowledge web through
internet, ease availability and exchange
of information has grown up. People are
becoming more aware of the happenings and
findings around. Piracy too evolved with
technology. If statistics are not wrong,
an estimated $40 billion (around £20 billion)
was lost in the year 2006 to software piracy
globally. It went up to around $60 billion
this year. The costs to the economy of pirated
software show why efforts to reduce pirated
software must be increased.
The Animation Industry faces a similar problem.
The Intellectual Property created by an
animation company is at a great risk of
being counterfeited. The intellectual and
creative cost of developing content is extremely
high. Programmers, writers, graphic artists
and a host of other talent work as a team
to create the content. By denying publishers
their rightful income it takes the funding
away from the development of better products
and versions.
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