Fact Sheet - Statistics On Internet Piracy Italy

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Piracy of film and music is rife in Italy. Physical music piracy, at 25% of all music sales, is an ongoing problem in Italy, but the Italian music industry sees online music piracy as a growing threat to the jobs and livelihoods of thousands of Italians in the music industry. As Italians take up broadband, they also take up unauthorised P2P file sharing. Almost half of all regular internet users in the country already regularly download music although the activity is most popular with younger internet users. 3.3 million Italians use the P2P services and most of them share illegal files over the net. With this in mind the Italian industry has worked closely with the education authorities to get schools to adopt copyright protection measures. The Italian authorities have already successfully used litigation against several illegal file-sharers in the past and conducted criminal raids against illegal server operators in May 2003.

3.3 million Italians swap music on unauthorised file-sharing services on the internet
22% of young people aged 18-24 engage in file-sharing.
18% of 14-17's engage in file-sharing.
48% of unauthorised file-sharers know that uploading unauthorised music is illegal. 25% mistakenly believe this activity to be legal
50% of file-sharers believe that there is no risk associated with the activity
Music buying has declined by 6% among 14-24 year olds, due to the availability of free music files on the web
Between 2001 and 2003 music sales fell by 50 million euro - an 8% drop
According to Jupiter research, 41% of regular internet users in Italy download music