In 2008, an estimated 1.2 billion music songs were digitally pirated on the Internet in Norway. In 2012, the number…
Over a three month period that ended in January 2013, almost 400 million digital files were pirated by Internet users…
The Indonesian Record Industry Association stated that at least 6 million people in Indonesia are illegally downloading music off of…
A report by the NPD Group found that music piracy rates declined in 2012. According to the study, there were…
The regional manager for Virgin Megastore in Dubai stated that their industry believes that it losses between 20 to 30 percent of…
According to a report by Google and the Performing Rights Society for Music in Britain, roughly 86 percent of file-sharing…
According to a report by musicmetric, more people in the United States purchased music in the first half of 2012 than illegally downloading music using BitTorrent.
The Recording Industry Association of Japan reported that 4.36 billion files of music and video was illegally downloaded in the country in 2010. During that year, 440 million media files were purchased in Japan.
An official with Universal Music stated to the press that the music piracy rate in the Middle East was 95 percent. Key areas where piracy takes place is in Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
99 percent of digital music downloaded in China is pirated, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.