The Philippines is making progress in its fight against computer software piracy with 76 people arrested this year, an anti-piracy group said on Tuesday.
Tarun Shawney, the South Asian director of the Business Software Alliance, an anti-piracy watchdog body, said that while piracy rates in this country were still high, government agencies were now consistently enforcing intellectual property laws regarding copying of computer programmes.
He called this a "fantastic achievement," which he credited to the government's creation of an anti-piracy task force in 2005. The head of the national police intelligence group Noel delos Reyes said that from January 1 to August 31, they had arrested 76 people for suspected software piracy.
The National Bureau of Investigation meanwhile said it had filed 892 criminal cases against alleged violators of intellectual property rights (IPR) from 2006 to the present day. The Business Software Alliance said in May that of all the software sold in the Philippines 70 percent is pirated.
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