Internet consumers in the U.S. are somewhat hypocritical when stating their views on commercial software piracy. While many of the respondents in a recent Business Software Alliance (BSA) study said software creators should be paid for their work, almost just as many have failed to pay for copies made of such software. The study, conducted for BSA by Ipsos Public Affairs, found that nearly half of about 1,000 U.S. Internet users have downloaded commercial software at some time, yet 81 percent of them have failed to pay for all the copies they made. Moreover, 57 percent of those who have downloaded software either seldom or never pay for the copyrighted works they download, with only 12 percent admitting that they have committed software piracy.
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机译：美国的互联网消费者在陈述他们对商业软件盗版的看法时有些虚伪。尽管最近商业软件联盟（BSA）的许多受访者表示，应为软件创作者的工作付费，但几乎与许多人一样，他们没有为使用此类软件制作的副本付费。益普索公共事务公司（Ipsos Public Affairs）为BSA进行的研究发现，大约有1,000名美国互联网用户中有将近一半在某个时间下载了商业软件，但其中有81％的人没有为他们制作的所有副本付费。此外，在下载软件的人中，有57％很少或从不为自己下载的受版权保护的作品付费，只有12％的人承认他们实施了软件盗版。
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