http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_news/20100428.htmlKey markets show impact of piracy
Spain (-14.3%) and Canada (-7.4%), countries with some of the world's weakest legal defences against piracy, show the sharpest falls, along with Italy, over a decade among the top 10 markets. Spain, where illegal file-sharing is more than double the average rate in Europe, has seen the biggest market fall, down 60% since 1999. Canada, practically the only government of a developed country not to have implemented international copyright treaties agreed over a decade ago, is a major source of the world's piracy problem. A disproportionate number of illegal sites are hosted on Canadian soil.Not too many things I'm proud of in our Guv, but this is one of them!
FWIW, the -7.4% is slightly more than the global average of -7%, and well below the US. As well we also pay the levy on blank media which has "generated" ~$250 million paid directly (I hope) to the artists sine 1997 or so.
