'Piracy down, legal sales up' says new IViR study
and so "it is possible to calculate an upper bound for the relative sales loss of total film views per channel and per country." The percentage of internet users in Europe that occasionally download or stream content illegally has decreased between 2014 and 2017. The decrease occurs for music, films/series and books. For games, the pattern is mixed. Meanwhile, expenditure on legal content has increased in most countries. This follows from the Global Online Piracy Study conducted by the Institute for Information Law ( IViR ) together with Ecorys . The IPKat is curious to hear more about this interesting work, and has asked the authors, Joost Poort and Jo�o Quintais , to provid readers with some details. Here�s what Joost and Jo�o say: The research team conducted consumer surveys among nearly 35,000 respondents , including over 7,000 minors , in 13 countries: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Brazil, Canada, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, and Thailand. ...