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World¶s Top Piracy Markets! 

Posted: 02 Mar 2011 03:44 AM PST

Technology has two sides to it ± positive and negative. And in whichever industry it is applied, the boon and

the bane of the technology get oozed out creating sizzles across the sector. While the media and

entertainment industry has benefited a great deal from the ever-changing, sophisticated technology; it is

equally prone to the biggest evil of technology ± the piracy . 

In India, Delhi¶s Nehru Place and Palika Bazaar are identified as the biggest few markets in the world

for pirated and counterfeited products related to computer hardware and software by a US agency. That¶s

not all! Even Mumbai¶s famous Manish Market, Heera Panna and Lamington road are listed

as piracy hubs of India. 

In fact, even China¶s popular website Baidu ± largest MP3 search engine regionally ± finds it name in the

list by the US music industry for the vast majority of the illegal downloads in China.

The US Trade Representative has prepared a µNotorious Markets List¶ with more than 30 internet and

physical markets that are thriving hubs of pirated products. It has pegged the worldwide value for pirated

products to be $1.78 trillion by 2015.

World¶s Top Piracy Markets [Online & Offline]

Top Internet Piracy Markets

Baidu (China) website ± China-based MP3 searchengine for illegal music downloads in China.

Alibaba (China) website ± Infringing products from

B2B and B2C segments.

Taobao (China) website ± Infringing products from

B2B and B2C segments.

Clones sites in line of Allofmp3 pirate music website

in Russia involved in illegal distribution.

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Top Physical Piracy Markets

Silk Street Market (Beijing, China) ± counterfeiting

of consumer & industrial products.

China Small Commodities Market. (Yiwu, China)

± 

Mostly small consumer goods.

Gorbushka (Moscow, Russia) ± 

Consumer electronics market

Rubin Trade Centre (Moscow, Russia) ± Piracy

Savelovskiy Market (Moscow, Russia) ± Pirated

goods in Electronics market

Ciudad del Este (Paraguay) ± pirated optical discs

Tri-Border Region (Paraguay, Argentina & Brazil)

Tepito, Plaza Meave, Eje Central, Lomas Verdes

and Pericoapa Bazaar (Mexico City) ± Pirated

audio-visual materials

Simitrio-La Cuchilla (Puebla, Mexico)

San Juan de Dios (Guadalajara)

Las Pulgas (Monterrey)

Czech Border Markets (Czech Republic) ± Czechborders with Germany and Austria ± IPR infringing

goods.

Polish Markets (Silesia, Kracow, Wroclaw,

Poland/Germany border)

La Salada (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ± Sale of 

counterfeit goods.

Neighbourhood of Quiapo (Manila, Philippines) ± Binondo, Greenhills, Makati Cinema Square, and

Metrowalk: Pirated merchandise.

Harco Glodok (Jakarta, Indonesia) ± Pirated

optical discs.

Panthip Plaza, MBK Center, Klong Thom,Patpong, Sukhumvit Road (Bangkok, Thailand)

Nehru Place and Palika Bazaar (New Delhi, India)

± Pirated DVDs and CDs.

Don¶t you feel the piracy problem is here to stay for as long as we live?