Online Piracy Spikes Amid Coronavirus Lockdown: Study
billboard.comLockdown and stay-at-home orders due to the novel coronavirus have been a big boost for online pirates, with a new study showing double-digit growth in digital piracy across major territories in Europe and North America.The data, published Monday by London-based piracy analysts Muso, shows visits to illegal film streaming and download sites shot up by 41.4 percent in the United States and by 42.5 percent in the U.K.
in the last seven days of March, compared with the last seven days of February.Muso saw a similar pattern across Europe, with visits to film piracy sites up 66 percent in Italy, 50.4 percent in Spain and up 35.5 percent in Germany over the same period.The piracy spikes roughly correspond to COVID-19 lockdown orders introduced in.
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