According to a lawsuit filed in Taiwan, 8 Japanese Porn companies lose $31 Million (1 Billion Taiwan Dollars) a year to piracy in Taiwan.

Source:  AFP, “Japan porn firms threaten piracy lawsuit in Taiwan,” Google News, April 14, 2010.

From 2007 to 2009, police in Turkey seized 7.75 million pirated CDS and Movies, along with 1.6 million pirated books. The counterfeit seizures were the result of more than 9,500 police operations that resulted in over 10,000 arrests.

Source: “Turkish police seized millions of bootleg CDs, books,” World Bulletin, November 29, 2009.

64 percent of pirated content on online streaming sites focused on the German market are television shows. 32 percent of pirated content were movies, with 4 percent being pornography.

Source:  Scott Roxborough, “German pirates hungry for TV series,” Hollywood Reporter, April 7, 2010.

In 2006, Internet users in Spain illegally downloaded 132 Million movies from Internet sites.

In 2008, 350 Million movies were illegally downloaded from the Internet in Spain.

Source:  Ben Fritz, “In Spain, Internet piracy is part of the culture,” Los Angeles Times, March 30, 2010.

According to a CEO of the world’s second largest CD and DVD manufacturer, customers in India buy up to 700 million pirated DVDs each year, creating revenue of $330 Million (15 Billion Rupees) for the pirated disc sellers.

Source:  Associated Press, “Hollywood and Bollywood join arms to fight piracy,” Washington Post, March 19, 2010.

The International Chamber of Commerce stated that people in Europe downloaded $13.7 Billion (10 Billion Euros) worth of pirated movies, music, tv shows and software in 2008.

Source:  Associated Press, “European Web downloads cost euro10 billion,” BusinessWeek, March 17, 2010.

A study released in 2010 found that despite peer-to-peer networking downloading falling by 15 percent, the illegal downloading of content increased by 3 percent over the same period.

The study found that the cause of the increase was due to less people using P2P networks but instead downloading songs directly from websites and utilizing streaming content services.

Source:  Sebastian Seibt, “Study shows how downloaders skirt anti-piracy laws,” France 24, March 10, 2010.

Illegal downloading activity through the use of P2P networks decreased by 25 percent from the previous year in 2009.

Source:  Greg Sandoval, “P2P music use down; users may be stuffed,” CNet News, Media Maverick, March 1, 2010.

90 percent of the pirated copies new movie releases are camcorder recording, where a handheld video camera records the screen.

Source: TechNewsDaily, “3-D movies are harder to pirate — for now,” MSNBC, February 9, 2010.

There are an estimated 80,000 mobile phone brokers who upload pirated music, movies and ringtones onto memory cards in India.

Source:  Rhys Blakely, “India’s music millionaires turn to slumdog pirates for help,” Times, February 9,2010