“46% of software on Spanish PCs is pirated”

I wonder if this isn’t an under-estimate–everyone I know in Barcelona who takes the government-subsidised software skills courses does so not because they expect to learn anything useful from the course leader but because they know they will receive a pirate copy of the software involved, be it Photoshop, Cubase or whatever.

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