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" By Ernesto on September 29, 2016 C: 79 News New research published by economists from the European Commission shows that online movie piracy significantly hurts sales. However, the effects differ greatly between countries. And in some cases piracy may actually increase revenue due to a sampling effect."

[ Thursday, February 5, 2015 by Paul Resnikoff In Norway, nearly 80 percent of all recording revenues now come from streaming. That's enough to virtually kill off piracy, as well as an entire recording industry. ...]

"Gangs linked to inter-national terrorism and organised crime are relying increasingly on music piracy to fund their operations, according to music industry figures published yesterday. Leading music groups saw the value of pirated sales rise by 4 per cent to $4.5bn (€3.7bn, £2.4bn) last year, and claimed the proceeds were being used for money laundering, drugs trafficking and terrorism."

"Promusicae, la patronal de los productores de música, ha anunciado las cifras de ventas del mercado de la música en España durante 2014. A pesar de que desde el Gobierno se promoviera una urgente necesidad de reformar la Ley de Propiedad Intelectual (LPI) por el perjuicio que causaba la piratería, las ventas de música aumentaron en 2014 por primera vez en el siglo XXI, creciendo más de un 20%. "