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How Piracy Affect The Economy Of South Africa


  • Piracy's Toll on South Africa's Economy: A Call to Action for …

    Piracy is a menace that casts a long shadow over South Africa's economy, posing significant challenges for businesses. As this issue persists, it becomes increasingly vital for companies to...

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  • Navigating WEF and the African Economy: Confronting …

    Piracy disrupts industries, threatens content creators' livelihoods, and hampers economic growth. To counter this, international collaboration, ethical …

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  • Determinants of Digital Piracy among Youth in South Africa

    The BSA claims that a 10 percent point reduction in software piracy could create an additional 2400 South African IT jobs. The piracy rate of music and video products in South Africa during 2004 was estimated to be 40 percent, translating into a loss of US$35 million in revenue to the local music and video industries (Curtis, 2006).

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  • Piracy and armed robbery off the coast of Africa

    African maritime security is particularly severely affected by maritime piracy and armed robbery at sea. Two maritime regions are chiefly troubled by piracy: the Gulf of Aden to the east of Africa and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. The return of modern day maritime piracy in Africa and armed robbery at sea had its genesis on land.

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  • Determinants of Digital Piracy among Youth in South …

    Economic Effects of Piracy. The global software piracy rate in 2005 was estimated to be between 35 and 40 percent, with South Africa's estimated 37 piracy rate putting right in the middle (BSA, 2005). Piracy cost the software industry as much as US$196 million in South Africa and US$32.7 billion globally in 2004 (Prins, 2005, BSA, 2005).

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  • Educate people about how piracy robs Africa's artists, …

    It is crucial for those committed to curbing piracy to actively embark on an intensive consumer-centred approach aimed at educating the public, especially the youth, on the negative effect of ...

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  • Piracy is Back in the Horn of Africa – What's Behind its Return?

    While reduced law enforcement and economic privation have caused a spike in piracy off the Horn of Africa, aided by a momentary lapse in international anti …

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  • AfDB Africa Economic Brief

    As a result of pirate attacks on vessels and other incidents, oil production in Nigeria is estimated to have dropped by. 20 per cent since 2006 costing the Nigerian economy US$202 million between 2006 and 2008.9. 4.3 – Tourism and Fishing. Maritime piracy also imposes significant costs on local fishing economies.

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  • The Security Implication of Sea Piracy and Maritime …

    However, attacks of the coast of GG constitute a fair share of the high incidence of piracy recorded in Africa. The GG accounted for 427 of the 1434 attacks in African waters between 2003 and 2011. The frequent attacks in GG, though not as high as those of the Somali coast, is however, on the rise (Unuoha, 2012).

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  • West Africa is becoming the world's piracy capital. Here's …

    From an economic point of view, maritime piracy is a threat for regional and global economy, as Africa's key maritime routes (Sea Lanes of Communications) are affected adversely. ... Modern day maritime piracy primarily affects three regions of the world: Africa, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. Whereas attacks on vessels were …

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  • Piracy is Back in the Horn of Africa – What's Behind its Return?

    Piracy has, however, returned to the Horn of Africa, and the past three months have seen more activity than at any point in the past six years. There are a host of internal and external factors at play in this recent surge in pirate attacks. The region of Puntland, both between 2005 and 2011 and today, has been the major source of pirate …

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  • South Africa's Movie Piracy Challenges

    South1Africa faces many challenges in the areas of copyright protection and enforcement, especially in combating movie piracy. According to the International Intellectual Property Alliance ("IIPA"),2 South Africa fails to reach the mandated levels of copyright protection under the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property ...

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  • The Deadly Impact of Piracy on Trade | ISS Africa

    Ben Coetzee, Senior Researcher, Arms Management Programme, ISS Pretoria Office. Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa is slowly but surely starting to suffer the dire consequences of the stranglehold piracy has placed on the shipping lanes on both the east and the west coasts of Africa. While, during the recent past, most of the efforts to curb …

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  • The Economic Impacts of Counterfeiting and Piracy

    We estimate that the value of international and domestic trade in counterfeit and pirated goods in 2013 was $710 -$ 917 Billion. We estimate that, in addition to this, the global value of digital piracy in movies, music and software in 20153 was $213 Billion. We estimated wider economic costs associated with the effects of counterfeiting and ...

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  • Piracy rates crippling economic prosperity in …

    Piracy hinders prosperity. This is the united/resounding message coming from speakers at the Convention on Reducing …

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  • Media Piracy in South Africa | Association for Progressive …

    Yet, despite the strong informal economy, claims of losses to piracy in South Africa were never high. "The IIPA (International Intellectual Property Alliance)—calculating only losses to US companies—put the figure at $129 million in 2000, of which two-thirds was attributed to business software," cites Primo.

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  • the impact of piracy in the somali economy

    A new study estimates that Somali pirates reaped as much as $413 million in ransom payments from 154 hijackings from 2005 to 2012. The expansion of Somali piracy has caused immense amounts of harm on the global trade market. It is estimated that the losses suffered globally range from $1 billion to over $16 billion per year.

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  • The Negative Effects Of Software Piracy

    Some of the issues caused by piracy include: Lower Service Costs – Lower service costs may sound like a benefit, but by offering lower costs, the companies are damaging the revenues and reputations of hard working, legitimate companies that paid for the rights to use the software. Every time you support a company that uses pirated software ...

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  • South Africa and Anti-Piracy Operations

    Published August 28, 2012. After an absence of two months, the South African Navy has resumed anti-piracy patrols off the coast of Mozambique. The frigate SAS Amatola sailed from Durban harbour yesterday to begin her latest three-month anti-piracy deployment in the waters of Tanzania and the Mozambique Channel.

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  • The Economic Impact of Maritime Piracy

    Global maritime piracy is thought to cost the international economy up to US$16Billion each year (Bendall 2009, p. 6). Since the late 1980's, Southeast Asia has become a global 'hot spot' of piracy holding the unenviable crown of the most 'pirate infested' region in the world from 1992 to 2006 (Liss 2007).

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  • Combating Piracy in African Waters | SpringerLink

    The adverse effect on the local economy may affect stability in the region. Pirates have been reported to use the profits accruing from piracy to arm rebel groups (for example, in the Niger Delta of Nigeria). Footnote 16 If true, this practise would directly impact the stability of affected countries. Uncontrolled piracy may also hamper ...

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  • Opinion: South Africa needs a comprehensive, multifaceted …

    It is without question that piracy has negative effects on the economy and the ability of creative professionals to earn a living. Left unchecked, the theft of content …

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  • Maritime Piracy and Illegal Fishing in Africa: A South African …

    In Africa, Maritime Piracy is an effect of coastal fishing economy decline caused by foreign exploitation of fishing resources through targeted and coordinated illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing. ... The impact of the withdrawal of the South African Navy and South African Air Force assets from this region allowed for resupply of the ...

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  • Piracy costs business in SA – BusinessTech

    Figures released by the BSA and The Software Alliance show that unlicensed software has cost South African business over R5.7 million ($675,595) in 2012. ... affect the economy of the country but ...

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  • Economic and Music Industry' Relationship in South Africa …

    This research paper aims to analyze those factors that influence economic development of music in South Africa. First, it should be pointed out that music industry includes a great number of stakeholders, in particular: 1) the composers and musicians; 2) the agents, representing the musicians; 3) record companies; 4) advertisers, promoting …

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  • Government to clamp down on pirated movies and shows in …

    "Piracy has a serious negative effect on our economy and on the ability of our creative professionals to earn a living. It harms investor confidence and tax revenue …

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  • Piracy's impact on the economy: Scare tactics or a massive …

    Entitled "The Economic Benefits of Reducing Software Piracy," the IDC study found that reducing South Africa's piracy rate from 35% to 25% would create 1650 new high-tech jobs.

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  • Government to clamp down on pirated movies and shows in South Africa

    "Piracy has a serious negative effect on our economy and on the ability of our creative professionals to earn a living. It harms investor confidence and tax revenue collection, and can also ...

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  • The state and impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

    2.2 Determine the impact of the 4IR on South Africa's economic development; and 2.3 To determine the impact of the 4IR on the Free State priority sectors? In order to address the main objectives of this study, a certain research methodology will be utilised to address the objectives of this study.

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  • Exploring Contemporary Sea Piracy in Nigeria, the Niger

    The annual piracy incidents in South-East Asia, between 2014 and 2018 was from 141 to 60; and to just three off Somalia, which between 2007 and 2012 was the main face of global piracy (Economist 2019). In 2011, piratical activities created a dangerous zone in the Gulf of Aden, which takes care of one-fifth of global commercial …

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