Employment lost to online piracy of the media industry in Spain 2019
The value of content accessed illegally stood at 5.7 billion euros in 2017, but music was the industry that experienced the greatest volume of illegal downloads.
This statistic shows the media industry employment lost to online piracy in Spain in 2019. Spain was losing over 20 thousand jobs owing to online piracy, with the movie screening industry being the media industry most affected, reaching figures of over 4 thousand jobs lost to piracy. The video rental industry was estimated to increase by 165 percent if it were not for video piracy.