The theft and use of illegal personal computer software is well above the national average in some of the nation's largest and fastest-growing states, while the impacts are serious and wide-ranging, according to the 2007 State Piracy Study, released last week by the Business Software Alliance. The national average for software piracy in 2007 was 20 percent, meaning that one in five pieces of PC software in use in the United States was unlicensed.

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