{"id":56720,"date":"2013-07-29T10:10:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56720"},"modified":"2013-07-29T17:04:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T15:04:17","slug":"sa-game-piracy-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/56720-sa-game-piracy-by-the-numbers","title":{"rendered":"SA game piracy by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MyGaming sister publication, MyBroadband recently conducted an online piracy survey among its readers, completed by 5,230 broadband users in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Those surveyed were typically tech savvy consumers with a good knowledge of the Internet and broadband services (see demographics below).<\/p>\n<p>The survey revealed that 58% of tech savvy broadband users in South Africa have pirated content over the last 12 months, and 28% of respondents have pirated video games.<\/p>\n<p>The breakdown of broadband connections of users who completed this survey are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ADSL \u2013 63%<\/li>\n<li>Mobile broadband \u2013 30%<\/li>\n<li>Wireless broadband \u2013 4%<\/li>\n<li>Other \u2013 3%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The survey results revealed that 58% of respondents have pirated copyrighted movies, TV series, music, software or games over the last 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular content to pirate was TV Series, followed by movies, music, software and games. Answers for the question \u201cWhat type of content do you pirate\u201d are provided below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>TV Series \u2013 80%<\/li>\n<li>Movies \u2013 70%<\/li>\n<li>Music \u2013 53%<\/li>\n<li>Software \u2013 38%<\/li>\n<li>Games \u2013 28%<\/li>\n<li>Other \u2013 6%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The majority of people who pirated \u2018other\u2019 content indicated that they download e-books.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">MyBroadband demographics<\/h3>\n<p>The following MyBroadband readership demographics are provided by the Digital Media and Marketing Association of South Africa (DMMA) and Effective Measure:<br \/>\n<strong>Age of MyBroadband\u2019s readers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under 20: 1%<\/li>\n<li>20 to 45: 72%<\/li>\n<li>45 to 60: 20%<\/li>\n<li>Over 60: 7%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Where MyBroadband\u2019s readers live<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gauteng: 48%<\/li>\n<li>Cape Town: 25%<\/li>\n<li>Durban: 6%<\/li>\n<li>Other: 21%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Monthly household income of MyBroadband\u2019s readers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Under R9,000 per month: 9%<\/li>\n<li>R9,000 to R20,000 per month: 17%<\/li>\n<li>R20,000 to R40,000 per month: 28%<\/li>\n<li>Over R40,000 per month: 37%<\/li>\n<li>No answer, other: 9%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Occupation of MyBroadband\u2019s readers<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>CEO, COO, CFO, senior management: 15%<\/li>\n<li>Managers and SME owners: 15%<\/li>\n<li>Professionals: 45%<\/li>\n<li>Other: 25%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Internet news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/56402-google-pushes-ahead-with-internet-tv-plan.html\">Google pushes ahead with Internet TV plan<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/56131-10ms-200mbps-mobile-broadband-bodes-well-for-sa-gamers.html\">10ms, 200Mbps mobile broadband bodes well for SA gamers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online piracy survey sheds light on piracy in SA, and what people pirate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"featured_media":56727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[293,6626,21,10829,10830,10831,101,10832],"class_list":["post-56720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-adsl","tag-game-piracy","tag-headline","tag-internet-piracy","tag-mobile-broadband","tag-online-piracy","tag-piracy","tag-wireless-broadband"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56723,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56720\/revisions\/56723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}