eMarketer.com – Illegal Video Downloads Outpace Legal Downloads Four to One

According to the NPD Group, among US households with members who regularly use the Internet, 8% (six million households) downloaded at least one digital video file from a P2P service for free in the third quarter of 2006, compared with 2% of households that downloaded a paid video file.

Free, and often illegal, video downloads are outpacing paid video downloads by four to one.

Nearly 60% of the video files downloaded from P2P sites were adult film content, while 20% were TV show content and 5% were mainstream movie content.

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