Approximately 375,000 jobs are lost each year due to internet piracy. This number is USA only, the amount of job losses worldwide is much higher.

We estimate that around $50 billion is lost globally each year, with $26 billion lost to the USA economy.

Although we estimate that there are approximately 2 million piracy sites (including mirror sites) online today, the most profitable of them make their money from promoting large online gambling platforms and sharing a percentage of users gambling losses. Many experts consider these gambling companies to be entirely criminal in nature, while others say they are partly legitimate and just have no problem accepting traffic from any type of website, even if it's a piracy site. As piracy sites often attract millions of daily visitors, some gambling platforms take advantage of this traffic to drive revenue.

According to numerous experts, 24% of the internet is used to download illegal content. However that number is likely to have grown significantly, because the last accurate study was conducted in 2011. Since then, both the amount of people with access to the internet and the average speed of internet have increased significantly. The large percentage of internet use may be driven by social perspective, with 70% of Americans and Spanish citizens believing that using illegitimate music or movie streaming sites is completely legal.

High speed internet has made many physical products, such as paper books, CD's and DVD's almost redundant. With most formats now accessible as purely digital files. Everything from software to images and high-definition video can be downloaded in a few minutes (depending on internet speed). This ease of access and speed of delivery make physical products seem impractical, additionally, when the products people want can be accessed quickly without paying, it becomes a difficult problem for content creators to stop. Increasing internet speed in particular, is the key contributing factor to video and software piracy, because these formats typically have larger file sizes than image and audio files. Music is most often accessible in small digital files, which allowed music piracy to spread even in the slow 'dial-up' era of the internet. In the future, internet speed will continue to increase, making even larger files quicker to download.

The majority of internet piracy is done by torrenting. Torrents allow users to share files between each others devices (peer-to-peer / P2P). Torrenting websites don't typically store infringing files on their servers, instead they simply index each users list of files which are copied from computer to computer. Torrenting has become extremely popular, with hundreds of millions of visitors regularly using torrent indexing sites to access digital files for free each week.

Cyber lockers can be described as free or paid services which allow internet users to download files from cyber locker servers. Popular cyber lockers offer access to small size files for free, but charge a monthly fee to users who want to download large files as quickly as possible.