The endemic problem of illegal filesharing and downloading in Spain is said to have cost the country’s music industry and whopping €2.7bn (£2.36bn) in just the first 6 months of 2010, according to new figures in a report by IDC Research for the Coalition of Content Creators & Industries.
Piracy and filesharing is rife across all entertainment industries (movies and games too) in Spain, with an apparent 97.8% of music downloads in the country illegal ones. The country is known for being one of the worst in the world when it comes to filesharing.
Will we see the Spanish government taking action any time soon? As a respondent in our Dance Music vs Piracy survey earlier this year told us: ““Here in Spain, people that download music and movies don’t think they are doing anything illegal. They don’t think they are stealing. They even have their own association called "Internauts Association" that fights with lawyers against the law by making weird interpretations of the piracy law that was written so many years ago when the only way to copy songs was in low quality tapes”
With the Finnish government now following in the footsteps of France’s “three-strikes” rule and the UK on the way, will other countries start to take the bull by the horns?
Source: musicweek.com