New data shows that despite the best efforts of various publishers in the last few years with more and more restrictive DRM measures, piracy is continuing to rise at a healthy rate.
The new stats come from research firm Envisional, who say that in the UK illegal game downloads have increased by a substantial 20 percent in the last five years. They claim that “the five top games of 2010” were illicitly accessed online nearly one million times, although which five games they were talking about was not disclosed.
Television and film piracy has been even worse affected, going up a cool 30 percent since 2006. Music on the other hand is the only category to show a decrease in piracy, showing a downward trend since 2008. Envision did not provide any reason for this, although it can be speculated that it could be due to free, legal music streaming services such as Spotify and Grooveshark.
Meanwhile trade group UKIE has been lamenting the piracy issue, claiming that every legally purchased game is pirated four times, contributing to annual lost sales of one billion pounds.
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