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July 16, 2013 11:56 pm GMT
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We Can All Go Home Now. Piracy Is Mostly Dead
According to a report by Norwegian researchers at Ipsos, piracy has fallen alarmingly in that country thanks to viable alternative sources. For example, music piracy has fallen from 1.2 billion songs in 2008 to 210 million last year. About 60 million movies and TV shows were pirated last year, compared to 125 million and 135 million five years ago. In short, access to paid content, whether via streaming or a la carte services, is slowly whittling away the impetus to pirate.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/FSLtmvVJCuo/
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