Software piracy imposes many risks to business, one of these being the direct negative effect of the inability to collect license fees from customers using unlicensed software.
Adding insult to injury, piracy also leads to unfair competition, causing properly licensed clients to lose valuable market share. In particular, high-value software comprises a significant part of a company’s production costs and making such an investment should mean exclusive rights to the software for the licensed clients. However, individuals in regions where the labor cost is dramatically lower than the cost of the software have the added incentive of pirating the technology in an effort to further reduce their overhead cost, which enables them to offer even further reduced pricing to clients, thereby significantly undercutting their international competition.
Piracy, in combination with the low cost of labor available in many emerging markets, can bring industry sectors in more developed regions to the point of despair. Only on a very limited scale do government authorities want to aid in ceasing and abolishing this growing issue.
Software companies that want to proactively protect their product market are faced with a wide array of challenges. The most significant of which is the “cat and mouse” game of identifying companies using illegal software: on the one hand, software companies are using smarter and more advanced technology to detect pirated use of their software; while on the other hand, the companies that intentionally steal their product are finding ways around this.
International enforcement against piracy requires a framework of commercial and legal resolution techniques adopted to local markets and executed in a professional manner. Most software entrepreneurs did not anticipate that one day, one of the core functions of their business would be to monitor possible thefts of their product on an international scale.
ITCA provides an end-to end solution to companies who are seeing their investments being undermined by piracy. ITCA’s Revenue Recovery Services provide clients with the ability to tackle piracy on an international scale. Its well-organized international network of regional offices and experienced business partners offer ITCA’s clients a solution to cover every remote corner of the world.
In less than a decade, ITCA has become the leading organization for companies seeking protection against piracy, as well as the unfair competition it creates for their clients. To read more about ITCA’s clients, please go to our “Case Studies” section.
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