Research reveals cost of illegal downloading

[Acorn Newsbot]

New research released by internet consultancy firm Envisional has shown that the downloading of illegal films has gone up nearly 30% over the last five years. The figures additionally show that the top five box office movies were illegally downloaded a total of 1.4 million times.

TV shows are also increasingly becoming victims of piracy as the top five most popular shows were downloaded a total of 1.24 million times last year; a huge increase of 33% since 2006.

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