The measures taken against the illegal downloading of music, particularly in France but also in New Zealand and the United States have paid off in 2011, said Monday the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) in its annual report. – Daniel Mihailescu afp.com

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The French were more than 10 million to go to one of the fifteen main pirate sites last May. This figure, revealed Tuesday by Le Figaro , is stable for two years, after rising sharply in the years following the installation of Internet Piracy.

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According to the daily, the French tended to veer Pair in exchange to peer networks (still used by some 4 million French) to download sites and streaming, more discreet.

The most popular? Download area which appeared in the middle of summer 2011 (the domain, filed in 2010, refers to an address in Nassau, Bahamas) and has grown steadily since. Thus, 3.5 million French went there in May.



Sites that are reborn from the ashes under a different name

And if one day justice would consider “the Download Zone File”, no doubt that the French would have no trouble finding an alternative. For if the pirate sites pay the price more and more of a closing requirement, all tend to rise from the ashes with a new name.

This was recently the case of the famous Pirate Bay. The young Wawa Mania site administrator who was sentenced on Monday to pay 15.6 million euros in damages to producers of music and cinema, himself has already announced a new version of its forum.