@Isaac
I really don't know. but I will do a research on this. In the meantime be honest with the following questions:
1- Do you accept that for years everybody says China & Russia have been the top Piracy countries?
2- Do you personally believe that ?
IF yes :
3- Why the numbers were not questionable for you? Di you ever asked yourself "Isn't it by nature something you could never know?" .
I've seen so many TV programs discussing piracy in Asia and mostly in China, but I have not even seen once somebody ask how do the figures have been captured.
You know why? I think because human by nature feels some kind of pleasure attacking others.
It's OK as far as it's the neighbor. If it's me, check the validity of the data first.
The graph I posted were from Statista. You didn't even bother to check it out. For you knowledge, Statista is a PAID web site that works with data and most of famous universities' students world wide use their data as the base of their researches. A simple data goes over several hundred dollars. Not that I say it's %100 safe to believe what they offer, but it's always interesting for me when Asia, China, Russia, Iran or these kind of countries are under question, nobody doubts the data. But as soon as somebody offer something against US, UK, Fr or others the source is questionable.
This one is $39
In the third quarter of 2020 music piracy sites worldwide displayed around 3.24 billion visits, whilst in the corresponding quarter of 2021 the visits' number rose to approximately 3.89 billion.
www.statista.com
You may not.
But to be honest, to me it seems that you are.