A Glimpse At Piracy In the UK and Beyond

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The BBC has a fascinating look into the music download habits of the UK (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19599527) population based on stats compiled by Musicmetric (http://www.musicmetric.com/). The stats, gathered through the monitoring of BitTorrent swarms and geo-locating the IPs, shows the hotspots for music copyright infringement across the UK and regional preferences for certain types of music. Some of the outliers are somewhat unusual though, suggesting some problems with the methodology or sample size, unless people on the Isle of Wight really do prefer trumpet-playing crooner Louis Armstrong to the likes of Rihanna and Ed Sheeran who top the lists nationwide. Not in the UK? There are some global stats on the ' Most pirated near you? tab (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19601653)' of the story. Better yet, if you want to crunch the numbers for yourself all of the data has been made available at the Musicmatch website (http://www.musicmetric.com/) under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial ShareAlike (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/) license and a RESTful API (http://developer.musicmetric.com/) to access the data (free for non-commercial use, but requiring an API token) is also available."

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