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Informer autrement. Echos 360. 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. To be clear this data comes from Norway and may not be representative of all areas but given the popularity of services like Spotify, Rdio, and Netflix – not to mention the many platform-specific releases made available on each of these services – has done what Hollywood couldn’t. Writes Torrentfreak: So what is responsible for these significant drops in piracy? As Gabe Newell of Valve said “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. PHP Zone | Community for PHP users and developers. Les Numériques - S'informer pour mieux acheter.

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