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Digital
Porn and films dominate illegal file-sharing
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 8 February 2011
I don’t know what you want to make of this, but according to some research by anti-piracy firm Envisional for US media giant NBC Universal, while the music business may be suffering from online piracy, it is getting off lightly compared to the porn industry.
Or, that is to say, a lot more porn is pirated than music.
The Envisional report reckons that nearly a quarter of global internet traffic infringes copyright, that a majority of BitTorrent traffic is moving unlicensed content, and that 86.4% of traffic on file-sharing networks like eDonkey, Gnutella and Usenet amounts to piracy.
But in terms of what that illegally shared content is, only 2.9% is music, with TV programmes accounting for 12.7%, films 35.2% and porn 35.8%.
