Monday 15 April 2013

Online Piracy Statistics

Source: http://www.go-gulf.com/blog/online-piracy/
Date: November 2011

  • 67% of Digital piracy sites are hosted in North America and Western Europe
  • 22% of all global Internet bandwidth is used for Online Piracy
  • 91.5% of files available for download on Cyberlocker sites (Rapidshare, Megaupload,etc) are copyrighted material
  • Websites hosting pirated content receive more than 146 Million visitors per day.
  • $12.5 billion in economic losses each year due to Piracy in the music industry
  • 71,060 jobs lost in the United States every year due to Online Piracy
  • 95% of music downloaded online is illegal
  • $59 billion of Softwares were illegally downloaded in 2010
  • China has the Highest online piracy rate of 91% in world followed by Columbia with 90% and Russia with 80% online piracy rate.



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