Despite the hunt for the “Pezzotto” of authorities and institutions, in Italy Piracy continues to spread. This was reported by the latest edition of the FAPAV/IPSOS studio on illegal audiovisual practices in our country, according to which in 2024 about four out of 10 Italians made a film, a TV series or a live sporting event illegally.
It is in total almost 295 million piracy actswhich translate into about 2.2 billion euros in turnover removed from the country system.
The report on piracy
From the data of the report presented to the general states of piracy it emerges that 38% of the population Italian adult has specifically used the illegal vision of the films, in 29%of cases, of TV series and fiction (23%) and sports (15%), especially football matches, followed as races broadcast live on the great prizes of Formula 1, tennis and MotoGP.
In particular, the analysis calculates a loss of turnover in 2024 of 530 million euros on films and TV series (-4% compared to 2023) and 350 million euros on live sporting events, increase of 23% compared to the previous year.
Lissed income that for the CEO of the Serie A League, Luigi De Siervo, subtract investments from Italian football, putting their future at risk, with repercussions also on the results of the blue representative.
“Many question why our national team is in this situation and so that talents are missing. A motivation is the losses due to piracy. All the money that is lost every year are not invested in the nurseries and in growth of our young people“Said CEO of Serie A.
The impact on the economy
The FAPAV/IPSOS study also traces a balance of the tools put in place by the institutions in the fight against the phenomenon: of the new anti -piracy law, two years after the introduction, and the activation since February 2024 of the Piracy Shield platform, which block the transmission online of sporting events live within 30 minutes.
According to the president of the Federation for the protection of the industries of audiovisual and multimedia content (Favap), Federico Bagnoli Rossi, the narrow begins to give the first results and “the pirates begin to worry”, as evidenced by the 8% drop of the piracy acts from 2023 to 2024 and 56% compared to 2016, the first year of detection of the content transmitted with prohibited methods.
But the impact on the Italian economy remains relevant: in addition to the economic damage in terms of turnover for the audiovisual and sport sector, piracy causes one Loss on GDP estimated at 904 million euros and 407 million non -income for the state, as well as cutting over 12 thousand of workers.
The Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti, present at the presentation of the report at the School of Perfection for the Police Forces in Rome, recalled that “sport and entertainment represent strategic sectors, not only on the cultural and social level, but also on the economic one”, underlining the importance of the prevention and repression of a “phenomenon that feeds the circuit of the organized crime“.
The identikit and the tools
The tools used mainly for the illegal view of audiovisual content is above all the so -called “piece”, the Illegal IPTVsin 22%of cases, followed by streaming (18%), download/peer-to-peer (15%) and still by use via social networks (13%) or instant messaging app (10%).
The report also drawn the typical profile of the user who uses pirated content, less and less young and more and more adults: if on the one hand he decreases by 14% the slice of subjects between 10 and 14 years who have committed an act of piracy, theidentikit of the user can be identified in 40% of cases between under 35, mainly occupied (six out of 10 cases), for 21% of the cases graduated and concentrated more in southern Italy and in the islands (4 out of 10).