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Piracy comes crashing down in Indonesia

by Advanced Television, Colin Mann — 11 April 2022

According to the Coalition Against Piracy (CAP), 3,500 pirate sites have been blocked in Indonesia since the government began site blocking in mid-2019. CAP’s data has also revealed that traffic to pirate sites is down by 75%, while traffic to legitimate sites has tripled over the same period. Prior to site blocking, copyright infringement had been a huge issue in Indonesia with 53m viewers visiting pirate sites each month. Government legislation, education and the proliferation of legal platforms are all credited with the decline in piracy.

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