**#7 Software piracy in Egypt is down for the second consecutive year, thanks in part to the Cybercrime Act passed in July, the Business Software Alliance said. The study reveals that the global commercial value of unlicensed software witnessed a significant decline to USD 64 mn in 2017 from USD 157 mn in 2015, giving Egypt lower piracy rates than Morocco, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, and the Philippines.
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