Internet users download twice as many films, games and music as they did a year ago, despite a big crackdown on the activity, according to a study on Tuesday. Each day, the equivalent of roughly three billion songs or five million movies zips between computers, according to the study by Cambridge, England-based technology firm CacheLogic.
It estimates Internet users around the globe freely exchange a staggering 10 petabytes – or 10 million gigabytes – of data, much of it in the form of copyright-protected songs, movies, software and video games.
CacheLogic, which provides filtering technology for many of the world’s largest ISPs, derived its results by monitoring daily traffic flow across its clients’ networks.
- CacheLogic Website
- CacheLogic Products
- MPAA: Movie downloading is new piracy plague
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) warned against a “growing global epidemic” of movie piracy over the Internet last week, citing a survey of Internet users in which nearly one in four respondents had illegally downloaded a movie online. The study, conducted by online research company OTX, queried 3,600 Net users in eight countries, and was cited by the MPAA as the harbinger of the tough times the industry faces ahead in grappling with online piracy.
