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.
