UK stream ripping increases 1390% in 3 years
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UK stream ripping increases 1390% in 3 years

UK stream ripping increases 1390% in 3 years with stream ripping sites now accounting for 80.2% of the 50 most popular music only infringing piracy sites. PRS for Music commissioned a study, ‘Stream-ripping: its role in the UK music piracy landscape three years on’, to look at trends in this particular form of music piracy. The study was conducted by INCOPRO who estimated use in the UK of a sample of 100 of the most […]

1 in 5 Brits listen to pirated music
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Stream-ripping piracy continues to grow

Stream ripping piracy continues to grow with the number of consumers acquiring unlicensed music in the US this way growing from 15 million in 2017 to 17 million in 2018. The figures come from a blog posting announcing the publishing of MusicWatch’s Annual Music Study. The use of legacy forms of piracy such as unlicensed download sites and Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing applications have largely become a thing of the past but the […]

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YouTube dominates music listening in Malta

New research by PRS for Music, the performing rights society for songwriters and composers in Malta, shows that YouTube dominates music listening in Malta with 85% of people in Malta using YouTube in the last 3 months. Over a quarter of listeners (28%) used only YouTube to access music. By contrast, just 32% of people had used Google Play, while 28% had used Spotify. Only 14% of those surveyed had not used any digital music […]