Recent ESA research indicates that 9.78 million illegal copies of video games were downloaded worldwide during the month of December. The ESA estimates, however, that the number is actually much higher as the study focused only on the 200 most popular games. They also cite that Mexico, Canada and Brazil should be placed on a “priority watch list,” due to their inadequate response to regional piracy problems. The report also “demonstrates a strong correlation between countries that lack sufficient protections for technological protection measures and countries where online piracy levels for entertainment software are high.”

Source: Kotaku