Internet Piracy Is Booming. Streaming Sites Are to Blame.
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Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

How Disney and Warner Bros. Are Causing Internet Piracy to Boom | Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.::Platforms like Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+ were supposed to do away with pirated media. Instead, they may make them stronger than ever.

  • graymess@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    10 months ago

    OK, but is it actually booming?

    Piracy of movies and T.V. shows really took off when torrents first appeared in the early 2000s. It seemed to peak five or six years ago, as new streaming services proliferated.

    According to the European Union Intellectual Property Office, piracy bottomed out in 2021—before increasing again. “Current piracy levels are still nowhere near what they were five years ago,” Van der Sar wrote in a recent article.

    We’re seeing a slight uptick possibly because of how fractured and inconsistent the streaming services have become, but we’re definitely not in some piracy renaissance yet.

    • GTG3000@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      10 months ago

      Think there also was a big switch from torrenting to using the online streaming sites. Wonder if that’s affecting the count.

    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      10 months ago

      It’s not when torrents appeared, more when people got connected to ADSL and later fiber which made the download of very large files feasible.