BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The pirated software sold on Chinese market accounte

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BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhua) -- The pirated software sold on Chinese market accounted for 24 percent of the value of the country's total software industry in 2006, down two percentages from that in 2005.

The turnover of China's software sector in 2006 reached 480 billion yuan (61.5 billion U.S. dollars), said an annual report on China's software piracy, according to a press conference on Monday.

The report was based on studies carried out by Chinalabs, a leading domestic Internet research institute. In 2005 the State Intellectual Property Office tasked Chinalabs with researching software piracy.

It attributed the decline to the robust growth of free software, a continuous government anti-piracy campaign, and the development of competitive domestic IT companies, producing reliable and affordable software products....


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