$180 million music piracy market in Bangladesh
According to Agence France Presse, original music producers account for 5 to 10 percent of sales in the $200 million music market in Bangladesh. The remaining $180 million are sales of pirated copies.
Source: Shafiq Alam, AFP, ” Bangladesh music producers take law into own hands to fight piracy,” Yahoo News, August 17, 2006.
20 to 1 illegal download to authorized download
The IFPI states that the ratio of unlicensed digital tracks downloaded to licensed tracks is about 20 to 1.
Source: IFPI, “Digital Music Report 2008-Summary,” January 24, 2008.
9.3 million people used P2P services in 2007
Source: Verne Koptoff, “Recording industry threatens to sue students,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 22, 2008, (accessed: January 22, 2008)
Illegal downloading of music growing at rate of 60 percent
As of October 2007, the market in illegal downloading of music was growing at a rate of 60 percent a year, and was ten times the size of the legal downloading services.
Source: Joseph Menn, ” File-sharing verdict a triump for record labels,” Los Angeles Times, October 5, 2007.
More than half of US college students download illegally in 2006
Bloomberg News reported that more than half of U.S. college students downloaded music and movies in 2006. Collectively, college students accounted for 1.3 billion illegal downloads in 2006. Two thirds of their music were obtained thorough illegal downloads.
Source: Don Jeffrey, ” Music industry steps up Campus Anti-Piracy Campaign (Update3), Bloomberg.com, March 21, 2007, and Amy [...]
One-fifth of seaches on baidu.com for unlicensed MP3s in 2006
In China in 2006, one-fifth of searches on baidu.com was for unlicensed MP3’s. Baidu.com is China’s leading search engine with 50 percent of online searches conducted through its website.
Source: Clive Thompson, ” Google in China: The Big Disconnect,” New York Times Magazine, April 23, 2006.
