
Despite the BPI’s support, the British government is facing criticism over a report by one of its advisory bodies in May, claiming that there were more than seven million illegal file-sharers in the UK. BBC radio show More or Less has been digging into the origins of this figure, tracing it back to a Juniper Research report by analyst Mark Mulligan, which was privately commissioned by… the BPI. It’s also picked over the bones of the report’s calculations, suggesting that the real file-sharers figure may be as low as 3.9 million.