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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
...I'm certain the movie pirating (and music) is larger than books.
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Hard to tell.
I'd guess, music downloads have dropped already due to streaming services.
As Apple and others sell less and less MP3s due to Spotify and the likes, it would make sense to assume a similar trend for illegal downloads. Maybe to some lower extent, if one doesn't pay anyway he'll bother less about alternatives. But there should be some impact already.
Movie pirating probably is bigger, since the entire business is bigger.
But the temptations are the same: US titles released months ahead of their release date overseas.
What I've found interesting:
One of my friends stated, he wouldn't download movies anymore.
Peer2Peer would be to dangerous and in Newsgroups content would be flooded by Spams in the meantime.
But no one (= copyright lawyers and such) would bother about books, you even could download them from open web sites.