An estimated 600 million pirated DVDs are sold in India each year.

20 million legal, licensed copies of movies are sold each year.

Source:  “Piracy causes $1 bn loss to Indian entertainment industry,” Economic Times, August 21, 2010.

9 percent of all illegally recordings of movies with a camcorder can be traced back to South East Asia, with a majority of the films being pirated in the Philippines.

Source:  Nickie Wang, “Intensifying campaign against film piracy,” Manila Standard Today, August 17, 2010.

Vibram FiveFingers, a shoe company, stated that it costs up to $2,500 in attorney fees and other costs to shut down a website selling counterfeit versions of their shoes.

Source:  Jennifer Alsever, “Barefoot shoes try to outrace the black market,” CNN Money, August 13, 2010.

In Zhongguancun, known as China’s Silicon Valley, more than half of all GPS maps sold are believed to be pirated.

An authentic GPS using licensed data costs about $88, while a GPS using pirated data can be sold for $44.

Source:  Zhang Hui, “More than half of GPS maps pirated,” Global Times, August 12, 2010.

Over 5.5 billion cigarettes, or 20 percent of all cigarettes sold in South Africa, are either smuggled or counterfeit cigarettes.

The South African Government loses an estimated $300 Million (2.2 Billion South African Rand) in tax revenue, which is roughly the same amount as the legitimate tax revenue.

Source:  Chris Blane, “SA’s illicit cigarette trade,” Moneyweb, August 1, 2010.

In 2009, European Authorities seized 118 million articles of counterfeit goods from entering the union.

The largest category of counterfeit good was clothing, with 27 percent of all seizures being fake clothing.

64 percent of all counterfeit goods seized was from China, a 10 percent increase in the amount of goods seized in 2008.

Source: “EU reports growth in fake goods from China,” BBC News, July 22, 2010.

Authorities in the Philippines seized $121 Million (5.6 Billion Philippines Peso) worth of counterfeit goods in 2009.

In the first half of 2010, police seized $30 Million (1.4 Billion Philippines Peso) worth of counterfeit goods.

Source:  Abigail L. Ho, “Value of seized counterfeit goods may top P5.6B,” Philippine Daily Inquirer, July 19, 2010.

The European Central Bank reported that 387,000 counterfeit banknotes were removed from circulation in the first six months of 2010.

The most removed counterfeit Euro was the 50 euro bill, which accounted for 42.5 percent of all counterfeits removed, followed by the 20 Euro bill, which accounted for 41.5 percent of all counterfeit removed.

Source:  AFP, “Number of fake euro banknotes falls,” Google News, July 19, 2010.

In 2009, British American Tobacco reported that counterfeit cigarettes costs the company $120 Million (93 million Euros).

Source: Associated Press, “EU, BAT cooperate against illegal cigarette trade,” Google News, July 15, 2010.

The smuggling of contraband and counterfeit cigarettes creates losses in revenue to the Europe Union of up to $12 Billion (10 Billion Euros).

Contraband cigarettes are legitimate cigarettes that have been smuggled into the country without the payment of taxes. Counterfeit cigarettes are fake cigarettes where no money is paid in taxes or the a legitimate business.

Source:  Associated Press, “EU, BAT cooperate against illegal cigarette trade,” Google News, July 15, 2010.