Research backs up new legislation

by INCOPRO & SARI

INCOPRO, Site Blocking Efficacy – Key Findings, Creative Content Australia (February 2018)

In November 2017, UK research firm INCOPRO reported that access to blocked online locations from Australian-based devices was down by 53% and overall piracy in Australia was down by 25%, as compared to October 2016.1

Compiled after the Australian Federal Court ordered the blocking of 59 pirate sites in August 2017, the report echoes the findings of a UK study by Carnegie-Mellon University* which showed that overall piracy was only significantly reduced when a substantial number of sites were blocked simultaneously. The research also examines the piracy landscape in Australia and identifies the most used content infringing sites.

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SARI, The Role of Search in Piracy (March 2018)

2018 Research into the role of search engines in content piracy shows that:

• 70% of first time pirates use search when discovering a source of content for the first time. For more than three out of four it’s their first port of call.
• Of those, 44% were not looking for infringing content when they initially found it. This suggests search engines do a lot more than ‘giving people what they are looking for’.
• Search engines are the primary way for people to find these new infringing locations.
• Finding these pirate sites amongst the top of search results legitimises them.
• 50% of piracy searches use auto-complete suggestions to find suitable links to access illegal content.

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SARI Research