Internet piracy in Finland
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Unauthorised file-sharing
- Broadband penetration has more than doubled in the last year and a half and now covers 35% of Finnish households.
- 15% of people in Finland have downloaded unauthorised music files from the Internet.
- The amount of P2P in some Finnish Universities has been more than 85 % of their outgoing data traffic.
Awareness
- 71 % of people in Finland are aware that file sharing of music without a proper authorization is illegal. In age group of 25-34, awareness is 82%.
- 76 % of people in Finland think that downloading music from illegal services is unacceptable.
State of the local industry
- According to a third party research, the estimate for yearly losses to the record industry in Finland due to the illegal file sharing activities is almost 10% of the total market.
- The Finnish music market fell by 13.5% in value in 2004.
- During the past two years the major Finnish record companies have reduced staff more than 10% in an average due the drop in sales.
Legitimate Services
- There are several legal online music services in Finland, including: iTunes, www.laturi.fi, www.biisi.fi, www.NetAnttila.fi, www.maxmusic.fi, MSN Music and Sony StreamMan (provided by Sonera).