Julia Stoll
Research expert covering TV and video media
Media piracy in France - statistics & facts
Over the past few years, official anti-piracy bodies had seemingly cracked the code and successfully managed to reduce media piracy in France. Arcom (the regulatory authority responsible, among other things, for combating piracy in France) led the charge by requesting the closure of many domain names hosting pirated content in France. While general usage is indeed slowly decreasing after reaching its peak in 2017, France remains one the European countries with the highest share of internet users who had intentionally used illegal sources to access media content, along with Belgium and Malta. Why and how are French people consuming pirated media content? Is media piracy really a thing of the past?
