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.

Piracy of video content in China is estimated to cost $1.4 Billion a year.

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

In 2009, there were 3 billion illegal downloads of content over the Internet in Spain, with 21 million legal downloads.

Source:  Raphael Minder, “Pressure Grows on Spain to Curb Digital Piracy,” New York Times, May 16, 2010.

According to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), more than 20 percent of global Internet traffic is made up of P2P piracy.

In Europe, P2P piracy makes up 29 percent of Internet traffic, and in Latin America up to 35 percent of all Internet traffic is P2P filesharing.

Source:  IFPI, “IFPI publishes Recording Industry in Numbers 2010,” Press Release, April 28, 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.

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.

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.