CEG TEK Reports Over 5.7 Million Unique P2P Users Pirated Award Winning & Nominated Music Albums

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Jan 29, 2014, 09:00 ET


Beverly Hills, CA (PRWEB) January 29, 2014 -- From January 10, 2014 to January 26, 2014, 5.7 Million unique peers (users) Worldwide shared 68 Award Winning & Nominated Music Albums using the BitTorrent® peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network, according to a new report issued by CEG TEK International (CEG TEK).

The album Nothing Was The Same by Drake was the most heavily pirated, with over 460,000 unique peers sharing his album during the 16-day monitoring period. Drake’s Nothing Was The Same was also the most heavily pirated album in his home country of Canada.

The native country of many artists played a key role in piracy terms. Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories was most pirated in their home country of France, Lorde’s Pure Heroine was top in Australia and her native New Zealand, and UK natives Calvin Harris (18 months) and One Direction (Midnight Memories) were both the most heavily pirated in the UK.

The report, Award Winning & Nominated Music Albums P2P Piracy (accessible at http://www.cegtek.com/music2014), "highlights the staggering effect piracy has on recording artists and clearly shows specific geographic interests for certain artists”, commented Co-Founder & COO, Kyle Reed.

The United States led the way in overall P2P piracy with over 1.9 Million unique peers (users) during the tracking period.

County – Unique Peers (Users)
1) United States – 1,920,643
2) Canada – 591,618
3) United Kingdom – 472,907
4) Brazil – 263,746
5) Australia – 241,503
6) France – 198,396
7) Italy – 158,133
8) Netherlands – 152,766
9) Russian Federation – 133,849
10) Spain – 122,370

“The figures for the United States and France are especially staggering when you consider that both have active deployments of six-strike and three-strike graduated response systems,” said Reed.

Worldwide activity for the top 10 P2P pirated award winning & nominated albums were:

Artists, Album – Unique Peers (Users)
1) Drake, Nothing Was the Same – 466,111
2) Eminem, The Marshall Mathers – 455,027
3) Daft Punk, Random Access Memories – 408,899
4) Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience – 301,634
5) Jay Z, Magna Carta...Holy Grail – 301,552
6) Lorde, Pure Heroine – 288,659
7) Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City – 202,849
8) One Direction, Midnight Memories – 182,071
9) J. Cole, Born Sinner – 173,301
10) Taylor Swift, Red – 159,742

In the US, the top 10 P2P pirated award winning & nominated albums were:

Artists, Album – Unique Peers (Users)
1) Drake, Nothing Was the Same – 244,813
2) Jay Z, Magna Carta...Holy Grail – 148,911
3) Eminem, The Marshall Mathers – 134,024
4) Kendrick Lamar, Good Kid, M.A.A.D City – 109,378
5) J. Cole, Born Sinner – 107,924
6) Justin Timberlake, The 20/20 Experience – 98,454
7) Lorde, Pure Heroine – 76,117
8) Daft Punk, Random Access Memories – 58,800
9) Lil Wayne, I Am Not a Human Being II – 48,791
10) John Legend, Love In The Future – 47,803

CEG TEK's proprietary detection software was designed with several unique abilities including tracking without actively participating in peer-to-peer networks. "Over the past decade, we've seen a significant shift in the way music is consumed online," said Jon Nicolini, Co-Founder & CTO, "but peer-to-peer networks still play a key role in its illicit spread worldwide."

Visit http://www.cegtek.com/music2014 to see the full Award Winning & Nominated Music Albums P2P Piracy Report and expanded data on all 68 Albums tracked including:

  • Album Specific Statistics
  • Top P2P Album by Country
  • Worldwide Gross P2P Statistics by Album
  • United States Gross P2P Statistics by Album

To learn more about CEG TEK's services or to schedule a free consultation please call 877 526 7974 ext 175, email salesteam(at)cegtek(dot)com, or visit http://www.cegtek.com.

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