Piracy’s Bill Comes In: £1.35 Billion a Year in the UK, €280 Million in the Nordics

WPI Economics puts illegal streaming’s cost to the UK economy at £1.35 billion a year — equivalent to more than 10,000 jobs and £366 million in lost tax — in a report commissioned by BeStreamWise. In parallel, Mediavision finds nearly one in ten households across Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden pay about €20 a month for illegal IPTV, close to €280 million a year.