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THURSDAY 9 JUNE 2022 • ISSUE 159
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Malta has highest rate
of digital piracy by
youths in EU countries
Mandatory
female
directors
by 2026
Bitcoin: negative
sentiment but a
sign of hope?
STAR PERFORMER MSE FTSE 100
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7,582.28
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PAUL COCKS
PIRACY of digital content - such as films,
music, software and video games - by
youths aged between 15 and 24, is the
highest in Malta among all EU member
states.
In fact, 43% of young people in Malta
accessed pirated content in the past year,
more than double the EU average, a report
on the behaviours of young people to-
wards intellectual property infringement
in a post-pandemic context has revealed.
And 41% of Maltese aged between 15
and 24 said they had bought a fake prod-
uct intentionally over the same period.
e 2022 edition of the Intellectual
Property and Youth Scoreboard, released
yesterday by the European Union Intel-
lectual Property Office (EUIPO) showed
that more than half (52 %) of Europeans
surveyed aged between15 and 24 said
they had bought at least one fake product
online over the past year, both intention-
ally or by accident, and a third (33 %) said
they had accessed digital content from il-
legal sources.
