Figure of the day:
85 000 000
the market volume of online piracy of films in Russia.
Company Group-IB, specializing in the prevention of cyber attacks, estimated the market volume of online piracy in Russia in 2017. According to experts, it grew by 21% compared to last year and reached $ 85 million.
The number of queries in popular search engines for movies and serials for free amounted to almost 10 billion per year.
Thus, on average, based on the total Internet audience last year in Russia (around 90 million), per user, on average, about 110 hits pirate copies of films.
The increase in the number of thefts of content from the screens of cinemas has led to the fact that the number of pirated copies of movies was 211 units in 2017, more than 6 times the figure a year earlier (33 “ekranki”). Thus, for the first 9 months of 2018, the number of published “ekrano” has already reached more than 280 copies. Thus, almost every movie released in 2018, rental, has been copied by pirates and posted to the network.