internet-cafeRepresentative Bussiness Software Alliance (BSA) in Indonesia, Donny Syeoputra, assess the actions of individual police officers to make internet cafes as target operation in software pirates  is not right. According to him, to accelerate the eradication pirated software, operation more directed to the companies and industries or large factories.

“If there are cases of police often ask for assistance to the investigation, but after the case finished their wishes will be inspected, while for corporate, police did not do the same, but also many companies that use pirated software,” said him at a press conference launching the program-War X Go Legal in Jakarta, Tuesday (30 / 6).

He acknowledges, almost all internet cafe in Indonesia does not fully use the legal software is often called “warnet bodong”. However, it is not because they did not want to use legal software, but does not understand how to implement the software in the legal business.

“Compared to most employers, the cafe has the level of awareness is higher to use legal software. However, lack of socialization and how to get legal software to make the cafe still use pirated software,” said Donny.

Compared to corporate, he said, the more the cafe asking how to get legal software. Lack of socialization from software company is the most cause of using legal software.

“They also have the fear that legal software is expensive, but if they open the www.legos.com, there is information on how to get cheap software specifically for the cafe,” he said.

For an information, based on a survey conducted by BSA and Incoorporate Data Service (IDC), the year 2008, out of 100 countries that the survey, Indonesia is located on the sequence of 12, the level of pirated software users in Indonesia reached 85 percent. Total losses suffered due to the software piracy is to reach 544 million dollars the United States.

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