Movie Piracy Market Value: $18.2 Billion
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).
Nollywood loses up to 50 percent of profits to piracy
Nigeria’s film industry, the second largest in the world after India, loses up to 50 percent of its profits to movie piracy.
Source: Mairi Mackay, “Nollywood loses half of film profits to piracy, say producers,” CNN, June 25, 2009.
Eight percent of consumers in UK admit to downloading video
Eight percent of consumers in Britain admit to illegally downloading video content from the Internet.
Source: Retuers, “Eight percent admit to downloading video illegally,” Guardian, June 19, 2009.
58 billion lost to US economy due to copyright piracy
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.
2008 Movie Piracy losses by country
Below is the estimated losses faced by each country due to movie piracy as of 2008. The figures were compiled by Havocscope over several years, with each source listed at the end of the post.
|
Country |
Market Value |
|
Argentina |
318 Million |
| Brazil |
101 Million |
| Canada |
118 Million |
| Chile |
10 Million |
| China |
565 Million* |
| Colombia |
41 Million |
| France |
322 Million |
| Germany |
157 Million |
| Greece |
72 Million |
| Hungary |
102 Million |
| India |
959 Million |
| Indonesia |
32 Million |
| Israel |
61 Million |
| Italy |
161 Million |
| Japan |
658 Million |
| Korea, South |
1 Billion |
| Laos |
102 Million |
| Malaysia |
36 Million |
| Mexico |
483 Million |
| Philippines |
33 Million |
| Poland |
102 Million |
| Romania |
12 Million |
| Russia |
266 Million |
|
Saudi Arabia |
95 Million |
|
Singapore |
8 Million |
|
South Africa |
75 Million |
|
Spain |
253 Million |
| Taiwan |
98 Million |
| Thailand |
149 Million |
| Turkey |
29 Million |
| Ukraine |
38 Million |
| United Kingdom |
406 Million |
| United States |
1.3 Billion |
Sources:
Unless noted below, figures are from International Intellectual Property Alliance, ” IIPA 2007 ” Special 301″ Recommendations,” February 12, 2007, and April 30, 2007. Both available at http://www.iipa.com/statistics.html (accessed: May 9, 2007).
France, Germany, and United Kingdom Figures: MPAA and L.E.K., ” The Cost of Movie Piracy,” May 2006, available at: http://www.mpaa.org/researchStatistics.asp (path: 2005 Piracy Data Summary), (accessed: November 24, 2006).
India, South Korea, Malaysia, and Philippines Figures are based on 2004 losses provided by International Intellectual Property Alliance, ” USTR 2005 ” Special 301″ Decisions,” June 4, 2005.
Singapore Figure: Winston Chai, ” Singapore implicated as piracy hub,” CNet News.com, March 6, 2003, http://news.com.com/Singapore+implicated+as+piracy+hub/2100-1026_3-991344.html (accessed: September 12, 2006).
South Africa Figure: ” Fighting fake DVDs – with fakes,” southafrica.info, May 19, 2006, http://www.southafrica.info/ess_info/sa_glance/media/dvd-piracy-190506.htm (accessed: May 25, 2006).
Japan Figure: Yomiuri Shimbun, ” LDP to submit film piracy bill,” February 12, 2007, http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070212TDY01002.htm (accessed: February 12, 2007).
Inida Figure: S Ahmed Ali & Baharati Dubey, ” Film pirates sail on,” Times of India, November 16, 2007, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Mumbai/Film_pirates_sail_on/articleshow/2544693.cms (accessed: November 16, 2007). Currency coversion based on November 16, 2007 rates.
Film studio claims Wolverine lost $20 million to piracy
Twentieth Century Fox is estimating that the unauthorized leak of its blockbuster film “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” has cost the company up to $20 million in lost revenue. In the month that the pirated version has been available online, the studio estimates that it has been downloaded up to 4.5 million times.
Source: Pamela McClintock, “‘X-Men’ takes hit in foreign markets,” Variety, May 6, 2009.
80 percent of movie piracy in India is for local films
80 percent all all movie piracy in India is for domestic films produced in Bollywood. The remaining 20 percent of movie piracy activities in the country is of foreign films.
Source: Nyay Bhushan, “Rand, MPA: Piracy funds terrorism,” The Hollywood Reporter, May 4, 2009.
Major Hollywood movie leaked one month before release
In a piracy case that the New York Times reports is “unprecedented,” a major Hollywood blockbuster was leaked online a full month before its scheduled release. “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” was available online and quickly viewed by thousands of people around the world. The film did not have many of the special effects and the sound and music tracks were incomplete.
Read the story at the New York Times.
614 million pounds lost to piracy in UK
The movie industry in the United Kingdom loses up to 614 million pounds ($857 million) to pirated dvd sales and illegal downloads, according to a study by Oxford Economics.
Source: Umee Khan, “Tackling film piracy would generate 614m for UK economy,” Telegraph, March 11, 2009.
2008 piracy stats for Bollywood
According to the US-India Business Council and Ernst and Young, India’s film industry lost 572,000 jobs and $959 million to piracy in the year 2008. The legitimate film industry in India is valued at $2.1 billion.
Source: AFP, “Bollywood gets tough on DVD pirates with a top cop,” Google News, March 7, 2009.
