Yeah that's either biased or just plain lazy reporting.

Edit: when something is general knowledge it doesn't require citations over and over again, because nothing has changed for over a decade. But fine.

https://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_March2004.pdf

ftp://ftp.jrc.es/pub/EURdoc/JRC79605.pdf

http://www.digitaltrends.com/music/bittorrent-piracy-increas...

https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/documents/2...

Let me know how many more you need instead of just down voting me.