MUSO’s new ‘Piracy by Industry’ Dashboard allows for comparison of trends month-on-month. For example, when comparing June to July of 2018 we can see a 4.72 per cent increase in global piracy. However, what’s even more interesting is the ability to break down the data by...
Another week, another streaming service launched. The most recent entry into the mix is Google’s YouTube, which has announced a music streaming service offering both videos and audio tracks for $9.99 month, as well as a free ad-supported option – YouTube Music. While there...
Global data shows more than 300 billion visits to piracy sites in 2017, a 1.6 percent increase from 2016 TV is the most regularly consumed pirated content, with 106.9 billion visits, followed by music (73.9 billion visits) and film (53.2 billion visits) Across music and...
MUSO, the authority on digital piracy, and EUIPO, acting through the European Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights, have embarked on a project to assess the economic impact of digital infringement across the European Union, with MUSO providing the...
MUSO reports that Game of Thrones season 7’s opener was pirated 91.74 million times. With 77.91 million downloads and streams of the first episode, streaming by far was the most popular way of accessing the season premiere. Torrenting nabbed the second spot with 8.36...
Actress turned producer, Jane Clark knows the indie film market inside and out and how crippling piracy can be to independent filmmakers. Clark’s films have been played in over 50 international film festivals and have won multitudes of awards. She’s the co-owner of Film...
Elio Bordi is a busy man. Between running the label’s website and magazine alongside being the promo manager for Frontiers, we were lucky to sit down with him to talk about what he loves the most: music and how the music market is adapting to the streaming revolution...
During a keynote speech at the 2017 INTA Annual Meeting, Iñigo Mendez de Vigo, Spain’s minister for education, culture, and sport, told the audience that Spain will raise “an anti-piracy generation” as part of its pledge to tackle intellectual property infringement.
Streaming holds its ground as the most popular way audiences are choosing to access their illegal content. Audiences are choosing less and less to torrent, with it witnessing the sharpest drop in usage across all piracy delivery methods. From January 2016 to December 2016,
52% of all visitsto music piracy sites in 2016 were through mobile devices From January 2016 to December 2016,13.8bn visitsto websites were to stream pirated content, 59% of this piracy activity was via mobile devices. Stream rippersites have surpassed downloadingto...
