This statistic shows the most common means of accessing illegal content online in Spain from 2017 to 2019. The most common means to find access to illegal content was search engines during the period of time under consideration, with a total share of 75 percent of the total amount of responders in 2017. Direct download of illegal content ranked second on the list during this 4-year period, and held approximately 30 percent of the total share of respondents in 2017. That same year, the most used search engine to access illegal content was Google.
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Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya. (April 6, 2020). How do you access illegal online content? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved June 13, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/465827/most-common-means-of-accessing-illegal-content-online-in-spain/
Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya. "How do you access illegal online content?." Chart. April 6, 2020. Statista. Accessed June 13, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/465827/most-common-means-of-accessing-illegal-content-online-in-spain/
Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya. (2020). How do you access illegal online content?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: June 13, 2025. https://www.statista.com/statistics/465827/most-common-means-of-accessing-illegal-content-online-in-spain/
Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya. "How Do You Access Illegal Online Content?." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 Apr 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/465827/most-common-means-of-accessing-illegal-content-online-in-spain/
Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya, How do you access illegal online content? Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/465827/most-common-means-of-accessing-illegal-content-online-in-spain/ (last visited June 13, 2025)
How do you access illegal online content? [Graph], Gremi d'Editors de Catalunya, April 6, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/465827/most-common-means-of-accessing-illegal-content-online-in-spain/
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