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.

Below are music piracy losses in 2009 for selected countries. The figures are from the International Intellectual Property Alliance.

Source: “IIPA 2010 “Special 301 Recommendations,” International Intellectual Property Alliance, February 18, 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.

Between 2008 and 2009, the number of pirated music files found online by the South Korean Government dropped by 92 percent.

Source: “Repelling the attack,” Economist, April 22, 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.

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.

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.