Digital piracy in Spain rebounds: 9% grows and impacts all industries | Culture | EUROtoday

Digital piracy in Spain grows once more. For a decade the development was down, however now it has damaged. In 2024, 7,330 million unlawful accesses had been recorded to content material, one thing that impacts all industries – music, cinema and collection, video video games, e book or the press. The financial worth of those works is a price of 42,782 million euros, 9% greater than in 2023, the best determine than the coalition of creators and content material industries has registered. The financial loss – or lack of business – of the business quantities to three,032 million euros.

This has uncovered it within the Piracy observatory and digital content material consumption habits 2024, introduced this morning on the headquarters of the Ministry of Culture, in Madrid. Carlota Navarrete, director of the coalition, claims to have acquired the outcomes “with alarm and some frustration.”

According to the report, 64% of Internet customers justify piracy with a easy argument: “To avoid paying for something, possibly, I don’t like it.” It is probably going that that is the rationale why the sectors which have elevated essentially the most on this event are cinema and collection. The cinema suffered the unlawful obtain of 1,045 million movies in 2024 (90% greater than in 2023). The collection weren’t far behind: 1,513 million downloads (a rise of 59%), equal to 2,086 million euros. In addition, half of the pirated works in all industries are new information, premieres and launches. In truth, 49% of those contents have lower than a yr since its departure to the market.

Search engines are nonetheless the favourite methodology of customers, with Google in nearly most circumstances. Social networks haven’t been capable of unseat the principle search and entry portal to unlawful platforms, however they shoot an increasing number of like a means. The report re -pays consideration to social networks and on the spot messaging. All of them have elevated: Telegram (39%), Facebook (36%), WhatsApp (27%) or Instagram (26%). These suppose a brand new block within the research, since having included them within the interannual comparability, piracy would have elevated 14% and never simply 9%. Navarrete factors out that synthetic intelligence shouldn’t be thought-about within the research: “We have made a first wave of data, but they are not consolidated.”

It is true that there’s an enchancment within the recognition of pirate pages. The Observatory signifies that 6 out of 10 customers declare to tell apart between authorized and unlawful platforms. However, the variety of Internet customers is bigger and likewise that of customers of illicit content material (6% greater than final yr). The financial loss – or worthwhile revenue – of the business is 3,032 million euros and is distributed as follows: 752 million correspond to newspapers and magazines, 722 million to music, 721 million to movies and collection, 369 million to photographs and images, 260 million to books and 208 to video video games.