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This chart illustrates the unequal contributions of accounts to a piracy website studied by HADOPI (Haute Autorité Française pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des droits sur Internet). Only 14 contributors accounted for 90% of the content uploaded, showing that much of the illegal activity on the site was concentrated in a specific group of users.

The chart shows the per cent of respondents who use the internet who reported consuming recorded music from any illegal channel during the last year, along with the per cent of all respondents who reported doing so. The chart reveals that music consumption from illegal channels is most popular in Spain, where 35% of the total population engaged in such activity in 2017. The abbreviation "pop." stands for "population." European Union refers to EU28. The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.

This table provides details about the number of albums and hours of listening via illegal means that respondents reported per capita (for the internet-using population) among several countries. Respondents from Spain reported illegally downloading significantly more albums than respondents from other countries.

The chart shows the estimated displacement of first legal views by first illegal views per country. Based on this graph, illegal views displace legal ones the most in the United Kingdom among the countries studied, and least in the Netherlands.

The chart shows the prevalence of copyright infringement through peer to peer filesharing and other platforms before and after establishment of Haute Autorité Française pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet (HADOPI). Although peer to peer file sharing decreased by 15%, overall copyright infringement increased by 3%.

This graph shows how the number of professional monitoring cases has changed between 2013 and 2017, based on data from HADOPI (Haute Autorité Française pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet). The number of cases has increased consistently between 2013 and 2017.

The graph shows the frequence of respondents in using file sharing services to upload or download content. Respondents in Bulgaria were the most likely to report having use these services at least once, while respondents in Germant were least likely to do so. The respondents were asked the following question: "How often do you do the following? Use file sharing services to upload or download documents, videos, images or music". European Union refers to EU28. The United Kingdom left the European Union on 31 January 2020.

The study found that 78% of investors would be deterred from investing in digital content intermediaries that offer user uploaded music or video should new anti-piracy regulations increase the risk that their investments would be exposed to secondary liability in intellectual property infringement cases. The respondents were asked if they agree with the statement "Anti-piracy regulations against 'user uploaded' websites would deter my investment in digital content intermediaries that offer user-uploaded music or video."

The chart shows the number of first notices sent by Haute Autorité Française pour la Diffusion des Oeuvres et la Protection des Droits sur Internet since 2010 until 2017 to the holder of an Internet subscription whose access has been used to commit acts of copyright infringement.

The chart shows that the number of Norwegians under 30 reporting that they illegally downloaded or accessed copyright-protected content over the last 12 months decreased dramatically between 2009 and 2014.