Roughly one-in-four Australians pirated on-line content material in 2022, as charges of illegally consumed media rebounded throughout movie, tv, music, and reside sport viewership.
The 2022 Client Survey on On-line Copyright Infringement discovered a rise within the variety of Australians illegally accessing media on-line after two years of declining piracy charges.
Video video games have been the one class with a continued decline in illegal consumption, whereas film, tv, music, and reside sport piracy all grew by two to 5 p.c between 2021 and 2022.
Lawyer-Normal Mark Dreyfus mentioned the statistics have been “disturbingly excessive” and hoped new applied sciences can be tailored to guard Australian artists whereas guaranteeing shoppers can nonetheless simply take pleasure in leisure media.
In 2023, Australia’s favourite exhibits and flicks could possibly be unfold over as many as 10 completely different streaming companies, most of which elevated their subscription costs within the two years.
The report additionally confirmed 26 p.c of respondents allowed somebody outdoors their family to make use of their login particulars.
With streaming king Netflix set to crackdown on password sharing, a minimum of 1.5 million viewers can be kicked off the service by March.
Compounded with the rising price of requirements and inflation at a 3 decade excessive of seven.eight p.c, the attract of free content material is extra tempting than ever.
The most important driver of piracy was the draw of free content material, with 31 per cent of respondents saying they might be extra more likely to illegally entry media in the event that they did not need to pay – a rise of three per cent in comparison with 2020.
Though 64 per cent of Australians nonetheless believed pirating content material was flawed, this was a 4 per cent lower from the yr earlier than.
In response to the report, the federal authorities has introduced a assessment of copyright enforcement mechanisms. It’s open for public session till March seventh.
