The new government in Italy is vowing to increase its anti-piracy efforts. From Variety: Italy’s new Silvio Berlusconi-led government is vowing to step up efforts behind an ongoing largely futile battle to fight the country’s rampant piracy plague. Gabriella Carlucci, in charge of entertainment affairs within Berlusconi’s conservative force, has ordered an urgent new anti-piracy push citing E300 [...]

Philippines terror organization Abu Sayyaf is said to be selling pirated movies to raise funds, according to movie industry officials.  From the AFP (via Goggle News): Al-Qaeda linked Islamic militants are suspected of rampant intellectual piracy in the Philippines, particularly of Hollywood films, to raise funds, a senior media industry official said Wednesday. The Abu Sayyaf, blamed for [...]

The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) states that worldwide losses due to piracy stands at $18.2 billion. Source: MPAA and L.E.K., “The Cost of Movie Piracy,” May 2006, (path: 2005 Piracy Data Summary), (accessed: November 24, 2006).

Determining the actual levels of P2P traffic on the Internet is proving to be quite difficult. From Ryan Singel of Threat Level: How much of the traffic on the internet is peer-to-peer file trading? Everyone seems to agree it represents a lot of the traffic, but the truth is no one knows (with the possible exception of the [...]

According to New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, 50 percent of illegally recorded movies are pirated in New York. Source: Thomas S. Mulligan, “N.Y.’s Cuomo seeks crackdown on film piracy,” Los Angeles Times, May 6, 2008.

Source: “Desi pirates steal a billion from Bollywood,” Economic Times, May 4, 2008.

The movie industry in India is losing about $1 billion to pirated movies in the United States.  From The Economic Times: WASHINGTON: Pirates are robbing Bollywood of a billion dollars in revenue annually in the US, says veteran Indian filmmaker Bobby Bedi, lamenting that “the face of the Indian films pirate is Indian”.  “The home video market in [...]

The Korean Film Council estimates losses of $1 Billion in pirated movies in 2007. Source: Han Sunhee, “Piracy on the rise in Korea,” Variety, December 21, 2007, accessed: December 26, 2007).

In 2005, Japan’s film industry loss an estimated 80 billion yen ($658 million) to piracy. Source: Japan Patent Office, “FY 2004 Survey Report on Losses Caused by Counterfeiting”,March 2005.

Source: “Special Report: China and the internet: The party, the people, and the power of cyber-talk” , The Economist, April 29, 2006, pg. 30.