The Computer Entertainment Suppliers Association reported losses of nearly $42 Billion from the pirating of Sony PSP and Nintendo DS games between 2004 and 2009.

Source:  Don Reisinger, “Study: $42 billion worth of PSP, DS games pirated,” CNET, June 7, 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.

Japanese video game maker Nintendo discovered in June 2009 10 websites where their games were illegally downloaded 238 million times.

The total losses to Nintendo was $10.7 Billion.

Source: Saki Mizoroki and Takashi Kamiguri, “Console game makers fight ‘magicom’ piracy craze,” Asahi, April 20, 2010.

Chinese knockoffs are believed to be responsible for gains of up to one-third in market share in the online game industry.

Source: “Chinese Knockoffs Pose Headaches for Korean Online Game Makers ,” Chosun Ilbo, October 17, 2009.

The AFP states that illegal downloading represents 50 to 75 percent of all Internet traffic worldwide.

Source:  AFP, ” Swedish crackdown on piracy pays off,” Google News, August 4, 2009.

The Brazilian Association for the Development of Video Games finds that up to 94 percent of all video games sold in Brazil are pirated.

Source:  Pedro Franco, “A Nation of Pirates,” Escapist, May 12, 2009.

At the World Copyright Summit in Washington, D.C., US Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) stated that piracy of movies, music, software and video games costs the US economy $58 billion a yer.

Source:  AFP, “Calls for united action at World Copyright Summit,” Google News, June 9, 2009.

The following are the estimated losses to video game piracy by countries. The numbers are the most current data regarding video game piracy released by the International Intellectual Property Alliance.

Video Game Piracy is the unauthorized copying, selling, and distributing of licensed video games without the permission of the copyright holder.

Click here to see a breakdown of pirated video game losses by country.

The Electronic Software Association estimates piracy losses to entertainment software companies to be about $3.5 billion.

Source: Kristin Kalning, “Game piracy runs rampant on the Internet,” MSNBC, May 14, 2007.

An official with Nintendo was quoted stating that Nintendo and its game developers and publishers may have lost $762 million to video game piracy in 2006.

Source: Associated Press, ” Raids in 16 States Seek to Thwart Video Game Piracy,” New York Times, August 2, 2007.