Fact Sheet - Statistics on internet piracy in Germany
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Unauthorised file-sharing
- Broadband penetration in German households is 14%.
- During 2003 some 325 million CDs were burned with music content compared with 147 million sold.
- 7.3 million people downloaded more than 600 million music files from illegal offers in 2003.
Awareness
- 79% of the German population know that file sharing is illegal.
- 66% of Germans are supportive of the industry taking legal action against heavy file sharers to protect copyrighted music.
- 71% of Germans believe that such action will encourage people to stop or at least reduce, file sharing activity.
State of the local industry
- The German music market has fallen for six consecutive years.
- Between 1997 and 2003, the value of the German music market lost 800 million euro - that's a fall of nearly 40% over three years.
- CD album sales have fallen by over 30% since 2000, single sales dropped by nearly 50%.
- Per-capita sales fell from 3 (units) in 2000 to 2 in 2003.
Legitimate Services
- There are more than 20 legal offers in Germany, including: karstadt.de, tiscali.de; hotvision.de, mtv.de, musicload.de, eventim-music.de,
apple.de, popfile.de.
- Many of these sites are powered by PhonoLine, Germany's intermediary technology platform for online retailing.