More music pirated than TV, film and games combined - new Ofcom report

Tom Pakinkis

Ofcom has published a new report tracking online copyright infringement during Q3 2012, with music seeing far higher volumes of piracy than TV, film, video games, software and e-books combined.

The ‘Wave 2’ report is the second of its type, performing a study into illegal file-sharing in the UK, surveying 5,5000 consumers across music, film, games, TV, e-books and software.

It is estimated that 297 million infringing music track downloads occurred over the period, with 10% of internet users having ...

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