Akamai Research Reveals Extensive Global Piracy Demand, Industry and Regional Trends
The research illustrates how online piracy continues to be prevalent across, and financially detrimental to, a variety of industries. Between January and
"Piracy is an ongoing battle, and there's no silver bullet to address each type of piracy online. As content developers get better at guarding against piracy, criminals are adapting their methods to access protected content," said
The scale of online piracy outlined in the report presents one of the most difficult and complex issues for companies to address. At a time when media, publishing, and other digital services companies are focusing on protecting revenue due to changing consumer behavior, it's paramount to understand the threat landscape to successfully mitigate risk. Piracy poses a security issue both internally at organizations and as another potential attack vector to protect against breaches of critical intellectual property (IP).
"When examining piracy globally and across the film, TV, software, publishing, and music industries, the vast scale of piracy is clear. Perhaps more concerningly, in many areas, piracy is still a growing problem, with an overall 16% increase on the previous nine-month period," said
Breaking down piracy trends
In addition to the unrelenting demand for pirated materials, the report revealed several other notable takeaways, including:
- A total of 132 billion visits to piracy websites occurred between
January 2021 andSeptember 2021 - The top pirated industries were television (67 billion total visits), publishing (30 billion total visits), film (14.5 billion total visits), music (10.8 billion total visits) and software, which includes video games and modern PC software (8.9 billion total visits)
- Globally,
the United States (13.5 billion), followed byRussia (7.2 billion),India (6.5 billion),China (5.9 billion), andBrazil (4.5 billion), were the top five locations for piracy website visits last year
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