1. Universal Music Group plan to tackle ‘casual’ pirates/ downloaders and just ignore the ‘hardcore’ pirates/ downloaders as the latter group are doing it for kudos and bragging rights and will never turn to legal downloads (Sean Leonard)

2. In 2007 there were 890m illegal downloads compared to the 140m paid downloads. (Amy Bradley + Charlie Fereday)

3. In the Ukraine and China, internet pirates are not prosecuted as it is the individual downloaders who are considered to be committing the crime. (Beth Wright)

4. A quarter of a million British jobs in the music, film, TV, software and other creative industries could be lost over the next five years if online piracy continues at its current rate. (Kelsey Baxendale)

5. In the U.S.A, 80 million less CDs where sold in 2002 than in 2001. (Ollie Noonan)

6. Due to illegal downloads,1.4 Billion pounds were lost to the British economy in 2008. (Felipe Zagotto)

7. The average student’s IPod contains 800 illegally downloaded tracks. (Simon Teasdale)

8. In some U.S. states illegal downloading can be punished by up to 3 years in prison and/or a£150 000 fine. (James Snowdon)

9. The Super Furry Animals have become the first band to release an album on DVD (Stuart Esdale)

10. In the year 2000, only 3.3 million mp3 players sold on the internet. By 2005 the figure had hit 23 million. (Tom Perkins)

11. The UK alone could loose up to a quarter of a million jobs by 2015 (Steph Woods + Bryony Hardie)

12. Illegal file sharing could cost European countries 215 billion by 2015 (Tom Dutton)

13. The music industry grew by 4.7% in the recession ridden 2008. People who don’t buy music still go to gigs and by music merchandise. (Gemma Wallace)

14. 180 million songs have been sold through ITunes worldwide. (Sam Brown and Amy Bradley)

15. MP3 causes structural unemployment to the music industry. (Tom Standen)

16. In 1997, 78 million singles were sold in the UK. Last year there were just 8.6 million.

17. 17% of all songs downloaded come from ALLofMP3.com in the UK

18. Because of the increase in downloadable music sales, more than 5000 record company employees have lost their jobs. (Michael Slater)

19. Sony have introduced ‘Key2audio CDs which cannot be copied. (Aphra Moores)

20. Piracy accounts for 95% of global music downloads. (Lewis Cooke, Rachel Clark and Amy Rudman)

21. People might have to pay an extra £24 on top of their internet /phone bills to cover the cost of file sharing. (Francesca Hoyes)

22. Spain, (one of the countries with the most illegal downloaders), has seen the record sales for artists in the top 50 fall by 65% since 2004. (Arran Cunningham)

23. “The re-prioritisation in recent years of live music over the recorded variety has been dramatic. Attendance at arena shows rose by 11% last year. Album sales dropped by 10% in the U.K. in 2009. (Laura Gregg)

24. A CD bought in a shop costs the same as a digital album bought online.

25. Some record companies have copy protected their discs to stop the music being shared (a voice can be heard speaking behind the music when it is copied, e.g.) (India Lewis)

26. The pirate music market is now so big (£2.86billion) it is of greater value than the legitimate music market of every country in the world, except the U.S.A. and Japan. (Justin Mears)

27. According to the RIAA’s own figures, over the last two years the music industry has produced 25% fewer CDs. (Amelia Hughes)

28. When Radiohead let fans pay what they wanted for their album ‘In Rainbows’ they made more money than for their last three albums put together. (Sam Morrisson)