India was the third largest contributor to visits to content piracy websites in 2022, after the US andRussia with over 7 billion visits.- KGF Chapter 2 And RRR are two of the most pirated films in Indian cinema.
- TV content, books, movie piracy, music and software are the most affected by piracy.
- Piracy harms content creators and artists, who are not adequately compensated for their work.
According to a piracy report from
Online content piracy refers to the unauthorized distribution or reproduction of copyrighted material, such as movies, music, and software, over the Internet. This is especially detrimental to content creators and artists, who are not adequately compensated for their work.
Television content accounted for 46.6% of all traffic to piracy websites, followed by content publishing (books), accounting for 27.80%; movie piracy came next with 12.40%, followed by music and software, which accounted for 7% and 6.20% respectively, the company said. Ankura Piracy Statistics Report 2022.
Spider-Man: No Way Home was the most pirated movie in the world’s most populous country of India while
“Video piracy is viewed more than 230 billion times a year, and annual global revenue losses from digital piracy are between $40 and $97.1 billion in the film industry,” the report revealed.
In terms of software, Linux 2022 was the most illegal in India,
Video games were not spared either.
The report’s dataset measures industry-wide piracy traffic and demand for the film, TV, music, software and publishing sectors on unlicensed websites for streaming, torrent download, web download and stream ripping.
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