Internet piracy in Netherlands
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Unauthorised file-sharing
- Broadband penetration in Dutch households is 32%.
- 30% of consumers download music from the Internet. That represents about 4.8 million people.
Awareness
- 360,000 warning messages have been sent to Dutch file-sharers in 2004 and 2005.
- Extensive media coverage since late 2003 about the illegality of file sharing.
State of the local industry
- The Dutch market for singles has fallen by 50% in units and 54% in turnover between 2000 and 2004.
- Sales of CD albums have decreased by 35% in 5 years, from 466 million euros in 2000 to 302 million euros in 2004.
- The average price for a CD album reached an all time low in 2004 at 12.90 euro.
- Since 1998 the compilation market, traditionally one of the strongest strands of the Dutch recording industry, has more than halved in turnover (55%).
- The under 20s old buy less CD's than they used to; in 2004 their share decreased to 19%.
Legitimate Services
- There are several legal download alternatives in the Netherlands: Musicstream.nl, download.nl, freerecordshop.nl, itunes.nl, sonyconnect.nl, radio538.nl
- The Dutch Mega charts began their own download chart in February 2005.