Poland on Second Place in Internet Piracy

A Symantec Report on the Internet Underground Economy reveals that Polish online pirates are among the most active in the world. The study found that Poland follows the US, the world leader in piracy with 14% in the top of PC games distributed illegally on the web with 8% and comes on 6th place regarding other P2P files.

‘Our research suggests that the high number of cyber-pirates may depend not only on the users income, but first of all on internet connection speed and the number of users’ Piotr Chrobot of Symantec Poland said, according to TVN24.

The study also shows that when it comes to software pirates prefer first of all desktop games which represent 49% of all illegal software available on peer-to-peer networks. Next in line exposed to online piracy come utility applications, multimedia software, most popular being photo editors, 3D animation and HTML editors. The security company estimates that if the pirates were to sell the illegal games traded on P2P they would come to a astounding profit of over $8 million and that in only three months.

Symantec research is based on a three month observation of P2P BitTorrent networks.