Between 2006 and 2011, the rate of piracy of video games in the United Kingdom increased by 20 percent. In 2010, the top five games were estimated to be illegally downloaded from the Internet almost a million times during the year.
Tag: Video Game Piracy
Data on the pirating of video games. Statistics on video game piracy and other content piracy activities around the world. Database included movie and music piracy.
Lost revenue to video game piracy
Up to 73 percent of global revenue for the video game industry is lost to piracy.
Internet piracy traffic
Piracy on the Internet of movies, music, video games and television shows make up to 24 percent of all Internet traffic worldwide.
Video Game Piracy in the United Kingdom
Video game piracy in the United Kingdom led to $2.3 Billion (1.45 Billion British Pounds) in losses in 2010 due to pirated games being played on modified consoles.
Internet piracy in Spain in the first half of 2010
Internet piracy in Spain cost content holders up to $7.3 Billion (5.2 Billion Euros) in revenue in the first half of 2010. Music piracy caused $3.8 Billion (2.7 Billion Euros) in losses, with 97.8 percent of all music downloads illegally pirated. Movie piracy caused $2.6 Billion (1.8 Billion Euros) in losses, with 77 percent of all movie downloads illegally pirated. And video game piracy caused $369 Million (262 Million Euros) in losses, with 60 percent of all video games downloaded illegally pirated. In comparison, $2.2 Billion (1.5 Billion Euros) were legally generated by the content industry online during the same period.
Piracy of best selling video game
“Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2”, was the number one selling video game of 2009. The game sold 11.86 million copies in stores and through legitimate vendors.4.1 million copies of the game was illegally pirated off of bit-torrent sites in 2009.
Piracy in Cuba
Over 80 percent of the computers in Cuba are believed to be using pirated copies of Microsoft.Pirated video games are sold for the equivalent of $2, and movies still showing in US theaters are regularly shown on state-owned television stations.
Hand held video game piracy
Video game piracy of hand-held games leads to the loss of about $8.1 Billion a year, as losses due to pirating of Sony PSP and Nintendo DS games between 2004 and 2009 lead to worldwide losses of nearly $42 Billion.
Piracy in Spain
In the second half of 2009, piracy in Spain cost $6.28 Billion (5.1 Billion Euros) to content producers. Legal sales in the country during the same period were $1.97 Billion (1.6 Billion Euros). Movie piracy accounted for $2.95 Billion and music piracy for $2.83 Billion. Of the digital music market, 95 percent is illegally downloaded.… Continue reading Piracy in Spain
Vidoe Game Piracy affecting Nintendo
Japanese video game maker Nintendo discovered in June 2009 10 websites where their games were illegally pirated 238 million times. The total losses to Nintendo was $10.7 Billion.