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.

In 2010, out of a total of 130,000 registered Internet cafes in China, roughly 80,000 cafes have never bought legitimate video distribution systems, meaning that they are showing pirated content.

Around 30 percent of Internet cafe customers in China watch movies on the computers.

Source:  Mike Clendenin, “Beijing Cracks Down On Piracy,” InformationWeek, July 14, 2010.

The television industry in India losses up to $2.6 Billion a year to piracy.

Source:  Sharmila Ganesan-Ram, “‘India among Top 10 online pirates’,” Times of India, July 5, 2010.

According to movie executives, movie piracy in the United States costs the economy over $20 Billion a year.

Source: Ronald Grover and Todd Shields, “Movie-Piracy Websites Shut Down in Raids by U.S.,” Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 30, 2010.

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.

Of the movie market, 83 percent of all movies are illegally downloaded.

53 percent of all video games are illegally downloaded.

And 19 percent of all digital books are pirated.

Source: Pamela Rolfe, “Piracy cost Spain $6 bil in 2nd half of ’09,” Hollywood Reporter, June 1, 2010.

In the Indonesian city of Jakarta, 50,000 pirated DVDs were seized by police in 2009.

In March of 2010, police seized 75,000 pirated DVDs in a single raid.

Source:  Hasylm Widhiarto, “Pirated DVD business flourishing amid high demand,” Jakarta Post, May 17, 2010.

City officials in Shanghai report that from March 2010 to the end of April 2010, police closed down over 3,000 stores that were selling pirated movies and music.

Source:  David Barboza, “In Shanghai, Bootleg Goods Move to Secret Rooms,” New York Times, April 27, 2010.

The industrial union in Italy reported that the piracy of movies, music, software and television shows results in the loss of 185,000 jobs.

Source:  Eric J. Lyman, “Piracy causes 185,000 lost jobs in Italy,” Hollywood Reporter, April 19, 2010.

In an article published by the BBC, a law firm that sends thousands of letters to illegal content downloaders state that up to half of the financial settlements received from consumers are given to the content provider, with the law firm keeping the other half for costs.

Source:  Jane Wakefield, “Anti-piracy firm defends net hunt,” BBC News, April 15, 2010.