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In their fight against piracy with audiovisual and software products, industry groups and other organizations, working to combat illegal distribution of intellectual property, are conducting frequent research, aggregating statistical and exemplary data used to measure the progress of anti-piracy efforts on national, regional and global level.

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Global Software Piracy Study 2003 The eight annual global piracy study of the Business Software Alliance (BSA) found the rate of pirated software fell by a percentage point in 2002, after two consecutive increases in 2000 and 2001.

Organization: Business Software Alliance (BSA) Date: June 2003

Music Piracy Report 2002 Last year, IFPI, the international body representing the recording industry, called music piracy a disturbingly growing threat, largely powered by the ease of online MP3 distribution and pervasive CD-R technology.

Organization: International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) Date: June 2002

International Survey of Music Publishing Revenues 2000 In its eleventh annual study of worldwide music sales, the NMPA identifies illicit Internet distribution and increasingly popular CD-copying tools as the primary factors for declining music sales.

Organization: U.S. National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA)