Piracy remains high in Brazil but is declining, said Manoel Antonio dos Santos, legal director of the Brazilian Software Companies Association, at our Digital Americas Summit in Sao Paulo. More than 90% of software was pirated in 1988, in 2004 it was 64%, a 27% decline, he said. Still, with 2/3 of software pirated, that adds costs to the legitimate software sold, because fixed costs are, well, fixed. Without so much piracy, he said, the Brazilian software industry could be employing numerous Brazilians and contributing far more to the national economy.