The number also indicates a fall of eight percentage points since 2006--the biggest in Asia Pacific in the same period, said BSA that release results of its 2010 Global Software Piracy Study.

However, the commercial value of unlicensed software deployed on personal computers in Hong Kong reached US$227 million in 2010, according to the study. "This demonstrates that software piracy remains a critical issue and there is still much work still to be done. said Winnie Yeung, chairperson of the BSA's Hong Kong and Macau Committee.