The statistics, from monitoring service Musicmetric, conclude that in the first half of 2012, UK users illegally shared over 40 million albums and singles.
"At the moment, very few medical schools are systematically monitoring their application and admissions statistics and making changes based on their findings, " it says.
Ms Bourne said Sussex Police were at the beginning of the debate about monitoring a sixth category of hate crime, but had not yet done research or gathered statistics.