Pornography accounts for more than 50% off all pirated DVDs that the Zambia Police Intellectual Property Unit has intercepted.

This is according to a report in Times of Zambia over the weekend that has quoted the police unit’s national co-ordinator Omari Muwowo.

Zambia had an 82% piracy rate in 2010, according to a study conducted by South Africa’s University of the Witwatersrand in 2012.

Also, watching pornographic films is a criminal offence in Zambia. Earlier this year, ITWeb Africa reported how a Zambian mine had fired 71 staff for allegedly watching pornographic films on company computers.

But laws against porn aren’t stopping Zambians from seeking out this type of content.

“Unfortunately, pornography is on the increase among the counterfeit DVDs the intellectual property has been intercepting,” Muwowo said.

“But the biggest is software piracy being done by IT personnel even in big companies and banks,” he said.

Muwowo explained that Zambian companies committing software piracy crimes typically purchase an operating system that has a licence for one computer but use it on several others.