UK consumers give boost to legal downloading and streaming for TV, films and music

A new survey, published today by the Intellectual Property Office (IPO), highlights the latest UK trends in online streaming and downloading. The survey highlighted 62% of internet users in the UK have downloaded or streamed music, TV shows, films, computer software, videogames or e-books. This is up from 56% in 2013. The survey showed that there was a 10% increase in UK consumers accessing content through legal services. One in five consumers still access some content illegally. The survey was published in parallel with research in Australia and shows that while British and Australian users consumed online media at similar rates, illegal downloading for UK consumers was half the rate of their Australian counterparts. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-consumers-give-boost-to-legal-downloading-and-streaming-for-tv-films-and-music https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-copyright-infringement-tracker-survey-5th-wave https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/446920/oci-wave5.pdf http://advanced-television.com/2015/07/22/uk-consumers-give-boost-to-legal-downloading/ http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/legal-and-management/6640975/uk-government-mulls-lengthening-maximum-sentence-for The online copyright infringement tracker (March-May 2015)