Piracy is more dangerous and prevalent crime than you think.[Anti-Piracy Hot Sheet]

71% of respondents agree that innovators should be paid for their creations, because it provides incentives for more technology advances.

Online piracy data

2010 Symantec Internet Security Threat report (Source: Symantec):

The worldwide financial cost of cybercrime in 2010 was $114 billion.

The study discovered more than 286 million unique variants of malware.

There was a 93% increase in the volume of web-based attacks.