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58% of Music Executives at larger record labels, 48% of Music Executives at all record labels
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70% say Future of downloadable music lies in making tracks play on as many different players as possible, 62% say Dropping DRM and releasing music files that can be enjoyed on any MP3 player would boost the take-up of digital music, 54% say Current DRM systems are too restrictive
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Number of tracks are downloaded without payment to rights holders (illegally downloaded): 95% / percent
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IFPI, collating separate studies in 16 countries over a four-year period, estimated unauthorized file-sharing at over 40 billion files in 2008.
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This means that globally around 95 per cent of music tracks are downloaded without payment to the artist or the music company that produced them.
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In the UK, Jupiter Research valued the loss at £180 million in 2008, with a cumulative loss to the industry of £1.1 billion by 2012 if nothing is done to address the problem.
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Europe Economics estimated the potential employment losses from piracy to the music, film and TV sectors at 30,000 jobs in the UK (December 2008).
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Overall 16 per cent of internet users in Europe regularly swap music on P2P networks.
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Those networks in turn account for up to 80 per cent of all internet traffic (ipoque) and file-swapping of copyrighted music and movies is widely-acknowledged to account for a large part of P2P activity.
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In France, the number of album releases by new artists fell 16 per cent in the first half of 2008.
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The French share of newly released albums domestically fell to 10 per cent in the first half of 2008, compared to 15 per cent in the first half of 2005.
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There were an estimated 1.6 billion songs downloaded illegally in Spain in 2008 (Promusicae/Gfk), compared to two million legal à-la-carte downloads.
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13.7 million films were distributed on P2P networks in France in May 2008, compared to 12.2 million cinema tickets sold
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In 2008 that one in three 15-24 years olds in Europe uses copyright infringing P2P networks – three times the proportion that consumes music legally.
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71 per cent of people who said they file-shared more heavily in 2008 cited the fact that they could obtain music without payment as the number one reason for their activity.
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84 per cent of people who had downloaded music illegally thought artists and authors should be paid for their work.
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Seven out of 10 music consumers download music illegally because it’s available free
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P2P file-sharing, a large part of which is unauthorized copyrighted music and film, accounts for up to 80 per cent of all internet traffic (ipoque).
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Seven out of ten (72%) UK music consumers would stop illegally downloading if told to do so by their ISP
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Seven out of ten (74%) French consumers agree internet account disconnection is a better approach than fines and criminal sanctions
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Eight out of ten (82%) American teenagers familiar with the law think sanctions for illegal downloading are appropriate; 57 per cent of those unfamiliar with the law agree
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90 per cent of consumers would stop illegally file-sharing after two warnings from their ISP
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Some three million people in the UK download unauthorized films online,
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11 per cent of UK movie downloaders think the practice downloading movies is “too much effort”.
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As a result of their online efforts, 99 per cent of all online views in the U.S. of the 2008 Olympics took place on NBC’s platform.
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In 2008, IFPI removed three million infringing web links, up from 500,000 in 2007, stopping potentially hundreds of millions of unlicensed downloads.
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A survey by Student Monitor in spring 2006 found that more than half of students downloaded music and movies illegally
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According to NPD, students accounted for more than 1.3 billion illegal music downloads in 2006.
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