General:
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Figures for 2005 showed there were 326 seizures in Ireland, involving 622,120 items, with a value of €2 million. (1) |
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Up to September, 2006 there were,137 seizures, totalling more than 6,500 separate articles with a value of €618,500. (2) |
| Electronics: |
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In 2005 there were four seizures of mobile phone accessories, made up of 1,360 items, with a value of €150,000. (3) |
| Film & Television: |
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In 2005 there were 67 seizures of DVDs, involving 5,022 items, with a value of €150,000. (4) |
Software:
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Ireland is ranked 19th in the 2005 PC Software Piracy Rankings: 20 Countries with the Lowest Piracy Rates, dropping 3 percentage points from 2004.
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Piracy cuts have helped Ireland's IT sector grow into a $2.6-billion domestic IT sector industry.
Reducing Ireland's 38–percent piracy rate by 10 percentage points would help the industry grow to $4 billion by 2009.(5)  |
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A 10-point drop in Ireland's piracy rate could create more than 1,800 new jobs and pump $541 million into the economy. It could also boost local industry revenues by more than $466 million and generate $277 million in additional tax revenues.(6) |
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Between 2000 and 2004, demand for software grew 12 percent. Strong software growth helped drive IT sector benefits — adding $90 million in new software revenues alone to the economy and creating hundreds more IT jobs between 2000 and 2004. By further reducing its software piracy rate, Ireland could accelerate its future IT sector growth and see its software sector's expected 6.7-percent per-year growth increase significantly. (7) |
| Sporting Goods: |
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In 2005 there were 61 seizures of sportswear, comprising 4,628 items, with a value of €365,000. (8) |
| Watches: |
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In 2005 there were 14 seizures of watches and jewelry, involving 687 items, worth €485,000. (9)
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