Manchester is 'PIRATE CAPITAL of the UK'

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I always knew that the old Mamucium was special.

Manchester is Britain's biggest cove of pirate downloaders, claims a Shoreditch-based music upstart. Mancunians have a particular craving for illegal copies of smirking indie crooner Ed Sheeran's albums and singles, we're told.

The northern city is the piracy capital of the UK, according to a new study by London-headquartered Musicmetric, which also found that Sheeran is the most pirated artist in Blighty.

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According to figures, the top 20 places in the UK for downloads per person are: 1. Manchester; 2. Nottingham; 3. Southampton; 4. Liverpool; 5. Sheffield; 6. Leicester; 7. Stoke-on-Trent; 8. Glasgow; 9. Cardiff; 10. Leeds; 11. Bristol; 12. Edinburgh; 13. Wolverhampton; 14. Derby; 15. Reading; 16. Bradford; 17. Kingston Upon Hull; 18. Birmingham; 19. Coventry; 20. London.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09...racy_research/