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Generally, sharing private data, P2P networks, sharing or using patented data, social
network based sharing can lead to online piracy.
There are ample pirated sites on the internet nowadays and these sites bound the
visitors with malwares, scams, frauds and different harmful computer viruses.
Current scenario of Online Piracy
Online piracy is simply everywhere. Eliminating piracy is quite impossible as
copyright infringement is growing and evolving at a high speed. Music, videos, books
and a lot of important material over the internet is getting downloaded or used
illegally. As per the US’s survey, China, US, Iran, Russian, India, Vietnam, Italy,
Germany, Turkey and Korea are the top 10 countries practicing software piracy and
license misuse.
Quick facts about Online Piracy
• Crack or serial sites, P2P networks, Share hosting sites, Newsgroups
piracy, Classified AD sites, Auction sites, and torrent sites are the places
or tools sued for online piracy.
• BitTorrent is one f the popular movie piracy sites. It gains 35% of traffic on
the internet.
• 33% of YouTube videos are uploaded by the fans without permission.
• As per the surveys, around 375,000 jobs are lost every year in US due to
online privacy while UK faces 8,000 job loss.
• When a Russian movie is released, within the first weak, $1million
downloads are made from the internet.
• Around 40% softwares installed from internet were pirated.
• The world loses around $50billion due to online piracy.
• 7/10 Americans believe that it is ok to share files, music videos and legal
content without any authority.
• By 2009, download of around 30billion songs was unlawful.
• Number of legal downloads have drastically decreased since 2008.
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