Mobile Entertainment Piracy is the unauthorized downloading of content for use on mobile devices, such as cellular phones.

The mobile entertainment industry lost $3.4 billion to pirated content in 2006.

Source: “Mobile DRM Issues Set to Cost Europe US $4.4 billion in 2006,” Cellar-News, May 9, 2006, (accessed: May 31, 2006).

There are an estimated 80,000 mobile phone brokers who upload pirated music, movies and ringtones onto memory cards in India.

Source:  Rhys Blakely, “India’s music millionaires turn to slumdog pirates for help,” Times, February 9,2010

In October 2009, an estimated 1.5 million people were using an iPhone or iTouch app that was pirated.

Source: Greg Yardley, “Piracy in the App Store (from 360iDev), Pinch Media, October 12, 2009.

According to the Recording Industry Association of Japan, 407 million tacks of music were illegally downloaded onto mobile phones in Japan in 2008.  The number of pirated tracks is up from the 399 million in 2007.

Source: Rob Schwartz, “Japanese Govt Set To Crack Down On Mobile Piracy,” Billboard.biz, September 8, 2009.

Music publishers in India lose up to $5 Million a year when their music is pirated onto mobile chip deices such as cell phones.

Source:  International Intellectual Property Alliance, “2009 Special 301 Report on Copyright Protection and Enforcement,” February 19, 2009.

An estimated 500,000 unauthorized ringtones were pirated in India in 2006.

Source: International Intellectual Property Alliance, “2006 Special 301 Report: India,” February 13, 2006.

Up to 70 percent of all mobile entertainment piracy in India is music files, according to a report on people aged 15 -24.

Source:  Mounty Munford, “Riding the changes,” The Guardian, June 24, 2009.

Source: Mobile Entertainment Forum, “MEF Announcements,” May 8, 2006,(accessed: May 31, 2006).