BPI submissions to the Intellectual Property (IP) Crime Report 2015/16 reveal online piracy is still rife as takedown notices escalate.
In the report, the recorded music trade body outlines the main online piracy threats - BitTorrent networks, mp3 aggregator sites, cyberlockers, unauthorised streaming sites, stream ripping sites and pirate sites accessed via mobile devices.
It adds that search engines – predominantly Google – continue to provide millions of links to infringing content and websites that are hosted that cannot be closed down have to be blocked in the UK under Section 97A court orders.
Between January 2015 and March 2016, the organisation submitted over 100 million URLs to the Google and Bing search engines requesting the removal of infringing search results, which covered music aggregators, streaming sites and cyberlockers.
This brings the total number of submissions to search engines for removals to over 200 million since BPI started sending requests in 2011.
The organisation says these numbers are ‘astronomical’, while the IP Crime Report says the numbers ‘demonstrate the large quantity of infringing content that is available online and which is easily accessible to search engine users’.
Elsewhere, the report finds that, during a sample three month period last year, 28 percent of those questioned admitted their music downloads in the UK came from illegal sources.
These figures show a decline from a peak of 157 million between March and May in 2013 to 96 million during the same period in 2015 – possibly as consumer trends shift to streaming from downloads.
Sixty-two per cent of UK internet users aged 12 and over consumed at least one item of online content (legally or illegally) over the three month period March to May 2015.
Forty-two per cent had downloaded content, and 57 percent had streamed or accessed content. This is the highest level of streaming or accessing content online recorded to date.
Access the latest report, which is produced annually by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), here.
In August, PRS for Music announced its new anti-piracy tool has made a significant impact in the fight against copyright infringement, with more than 57,000 successful take-down notices issued to offending websites. Find out more.
In the report, the recorded music trade body outlines the main online piracy threats - BitTorrent networks, mp3 aggregator sites, cyberlockers, unauthorised streaming sites, stream ripping sites and pirate sites accessed via mobile devices.
It adds that search engines – predominantly Google – continue to provide millions of links to infringing content and websites that are hosted that cannot be closed down have to be blocked in the UK under Section 97A court orders.
Between January 2015 and March 2016, the organisation submitted over 100 million URLs to the Google and Bing search engines requesting the removal of infringing search results, which covered music aggregators, streaming sites and cyberlockers.
This brings the total number of submissions to search engines for removals to over 200 million since BPI started sending requests in 2011.
The organisation says these numbers are ‘astronomical’, while the IP Crime Report says the numbers ‘demonstrate the large quantity of infringing content that is available online and which is easily accessible to search engine users’.
Elsewhere, the report finds that, during a sample three month period last year, 28 percent of those questioned admitted their music downloads in the UK came from illegal sources.
These figures show a decline from a peak of 157 million between March and May in 2013 to 96 million during the same period in 2015 – possibly as consumer trends shift to streaming from downloads.
Sixty-two per cent of UK internet users aged 12 and over consumed at least one item of online content (legally or illegally) over the three month period March to May 2015.
Forty-two per cent had downloaded content, and 57 percent had streamed or accessed content. This is the highest level of streaming or accessing content online recorded to date.
Access the latest report, which is produced annually by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), here.
In August, PRS for Music announced its new anti-piracy tool has made a significant impact in the fight against copyright infringement, with more than 57,000 successful take-down notices issued to offending websites. Find out more.
