UK's 'top piracy city' revealed

Ed Sheeran topped the list of most pirated
UK artist for the first half of 2012 

Manchester has been named the piracy capital of the UK, according to a new study.

The research said there were more illegal downloads per person in the city than any other in the country, followed by Nottingham and Southampton.

The statistics, from monitoring service Musicmetric, conclude that in the first half of 2012, UK users illegally shared over 40 million albums and singles.

An industry group said the data showed piracy "remains a significant problem".

It monitored the global activity of BitTorrent files - a method of obtaining files by downloading from many users at the same time.

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