Piracy Archives

1 in 5 Brits listen to pirated music

01/03/2020

1 in 5 Brits listen to pirated music according to a new report from the UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) entitled Online Copyright Infringement Tracker. The report is the ninth in a series of reports originally commissioned by Ofcom in 2012 to ‘monitor the impact of new online platforms on infringement behaviours.’ The overall summary reported that ‘For all categories, consumption (i.e. downloading, streaming/accessing content online) remained consistent or increased since the previous wave’ with […]

One third of US music subscribers share accounts

11/02/2020

One third of US music subscribers share accounts according to recent research by MusicWatch, the music consumer research organisation and published in a recent blog. Streaming services have largely been credited for the reduction of music piracy by CD copying and P2P networks which were popular a decade ago. However digital service providers are not immune from account sharing. Research by MusicWatch’s Monitor series of consumer research conducted in 2019 came up with the following […]

Music piracy declines in Australia

28/12/2019

Music piracy is declining in Australia according to a recent survey conducted by the Australian Government’s Department of Communications and the Arts. The survey conducted in March 2019 was the fifth consumer survey of online copyright infringement amongst Australians aged 12+ which asked respondents about their consumption of all types of online content. The results show that consumption continues to grow and ‘online copyright infringement continues to trend down’. The four key objectives stated for […]

SOURCE: EUIPO - Music piracy by country and by access type 2018

Digital piracy is declining in Europe

11/12/2019

Digital piracy is declining in Europe according to recent research by the EUIPO and published in a report entitled Online Copyright Infringement in the European Union. The report examines consumption of copyright-infringing content in the 28 EU Member States, for TV programmes, music and film, using a variety of access methods. The analysis covers the period January 2017 to September 2018 and contains data for both fixed and mobile devices, as well as the main […]

Music piracy declines by 32% in Europe

30/11/2019

Music piracy declines by 32% in Europe with users still accessing pirated content nearly ten times a month according to a recent report by the European Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The report shows that there was a 15% EU-wide decrease in access of pirated online content from 2017-2018 but that pirated content was accessed 9.7 times per user per month in the first nine months of 2018, on both fixed and mobile devices. Although consumption […]

Online piracy declines in Europe

09/11/2019

Online piracy declines in Europe according to a study by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) which shows that 51% of 15 to 24 year olds in Europe say they have not used, played, downloaded or streamed content from illegal sources in the last 12 months. This compares to 40% in the last study conducted in 2016. The 2019 Intellectual Property and Youth Scoreboard shows a decrease in the percentage of young people who […]

Music listening is above average in Spain

09/10/2019

Music listening is above average in Spain with Spaniards listening to 20 hours of music a week, two more than the world average. Half of the Spanish population declares themselves to be a ‘fan’ of music and mostly listens to it on streaming platforms according to an analysis of data from IFPI’s Music Listening Report 2019 by Promusicae, the Spanish recorded music industry association. The complete IFPI report can be downloaded in either English or […]