Online piracy of TV shows, movies, music, and games is on the wane in Australia – thanks, it seems to the rise of low-cost monthly streaming services such as Netflix and Stan.A new Consumer Survey on Online Copyright
Infringement, conducted for the federal Department of Communications, showed
that downloaders of unlawful content actually spent more money than people who
bought their content legally.
The percentage of people downloading content illegally fell from 43 percent to
39 percent over the year, while those who streamed content legally rose from 54
to 57 percent. The numbers streaming TV shows rose from 34 to 38 percent; those
streaming movies rose from 25 to 29pc; while those streaming music fell from 29
percent to 26 percent.
Illegally downloaded movies dropped from 18 to 16 percent; music dropped from
29 to 26 percent; and TV from 19 to 17 percent, the survey found.
