432 Million Internet Pirates Transfer 9,567 Petabytes of Data a Month
A new study commissioned by NBC Universal shows that piracy worldwide is on the rise. The report estimates that in January of this year 432 million people used the Internet to access copyright infringing material. The total bandwidth consumed by these unauthorized transfers equaled 9,567 petabytes per month in 2012, most of which was transferred through BitTorrent. In total, the report attributes nearly a quarter of all Internet traffic to piracy.
This morning the Piracy Analysis team at NetNames released a comprehensive report on the scope of online piracy.
Titled “Sizing the Piracy Universe,” the NBC Universal commissioned study maps the volume and prevalence of online piracy throughout the world.
The overall conclusion of the report is that, despite various anti-piracy policies and enforcement actions, piracy is hard to stop.
“The practice of infringement is tenacious and persistent. Despite some discrete instances of success in limiting infringement, the piracy universe not only persists in attracting more users year on year but hungrily consumes increasing amounts of bandwidth,” NetNames writes.
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To be clear as to the amounts we are talking about here: 8,701,136 terabytes per month.
The adoption/envelopment of the Pirate Party and/or is tenets in America is a clear winner politically. Digital Piracy is here to stay.
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Cowen Thorne