Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Piracy notes

 - Global digital piracy costs the US film and TV industry at least an estimated $29.2 billion and as much as $71 billion annually, according to a new study from the US Chamber of Commerce's Global Innovation Policy Center on Tuesday.

- 126.7 billion viewings worth of US-produced TV episodes are pirated every year.

- There were over 17 million stream-rippers in 2018.

- 70,000 jobs a year are lost in the United States due to music piracy.

- TV shows remain the most-popular content among pirates; there were 106.9 billion visits to pirate websites in 2017.

- Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

- Annual global revenue losses from digital piracy are between $40 and $97.1 billion in the movie industry.



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