More people continue to turn to piracy, a trend that has been growing since 2020, according to piracy tracker MUSO. With the advent of more streaming services than ever, online media consumers are pirating dramatically more, especially when it comes to film and publishing. Piracy is on the rise in all categories, which include TV, film, publishing, music, and software, with an increase of 20% over last year. Film piracy is up by a whopping 47%, with publishing-related piracy up by almost 40%, while TV and software both went up by about 10% each. Piracy of music saw the lowest growth, of less than 5%, but an increase nonetheless.

MUSO measured a variety of statistics, comparing illegal streaming sites versus illegal download sites. Overall, 54% of all piracy-related traffic goes toward streaming sites, while the rest is to torrent and download sites. A whopping 95.1% of pirated TV content is streamed, rather than downloaded, while the split is more even when it comes to film or music. According to the numbers, over 60% of traffic is direct, and only 28% comes from Google, or other search engine results. Most piracy occurs in the United States which has a moderate lead over the rest of the world, with Russia, India, and China following behind.

Prior to 2020, piracy traffic did not have such large growths, and in the 2010s, even saw a decline in most countries.

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[Nincompoopdo]

Inflation is going to get worse, utility bills are rising and things are all getting expensive - people are running out of money. That's why the sharemarket and crypto markets are dropping, people are selling to get cash for living expenses. People will pirate food, electricity, gas and rent if it's possible, no one is going pay for digital goods in the future.

 

[MarkDarkness]

Publishers keep pushing prices up for everything, including games, saying "the market is ready for a price increase" (quoted from EA). Right after a two-year pandemic. As we face a possible global recession.

Yeah... that sounds like it was always going to work just fine. Now they just need to go back to knocking at people's doors and arresting them for pirating MP3s... oh, I mean, Netflix series.

 

[seseiSeki]

It's not just prices. It's also the fact that pirates offer a way better service than official ways. I currently don't know any site where you can just throw money at your screen, get an mkv of your favorite movie or whatever and just do with that file what you want. The same goes for roms, except the few ones Sega put on Steam.
And with subscription services being as big as they are, I don't see this situation getting better in the forseeable future.

 

[MasterPanda]

The amount of "high quality" games that get launched in a broken state, is also on the rise ...

 

[Guacaholey]

People: monopolies bad. Fuck Microsoft.

Also people: NOOOOO WHY ARE YOU MAKING YOUR OWN STREAMING PLATFORM RATHER THAN LETTING NETFLIX OWN EVERYTHING THIS IS SHIT >:’(



To all the dumb fucks complaining about multiple platforms, let me ask you this:

- a person watches, on average, 10 movies a month (it’s true, look it up)
- let’s assume that you need 3 platforms to watch those
- the average cost of renting a digital movie is $4
- your monthly expense for 3 streaming platforms is $35 per month

Would you look at that, the price is still lower than what you would pay if you rent, which is something that has been around since Blockbuster came. And that’s not counting all the other shit you can watch for those $35 too.

You can argue all you want that you’d rather pirate and keep the money to other useful stuff like Doritos and Mountain Dew, but let’s not pretend that a few more streaming services are going to bankrupt you because it’s just bullshit.

The problem is there are a lot of exclusive shows to platforms, as well as some being better for different genres. I pay for 3 anime streaming services alone. Then there's Disney+, Netflix, Apple TV (which I don't use, but it's here as an example), Paramount Plus, etc. You could easily pay over $100/mo because of exclusivity. For a lot of people cash is short right now due to the pandemic (lockdowns, changes in operation for workplaces, etc). You can pretend it's cheap all you want but companies like HBO, Paramount/Viacom, Disney (and Fox by extension), and Sony (including FUNimation and Crunchyroll), which have their own services pull things from competiting services. Many only support 1 or 2 simultaneous streams on basic plans too.

 

[Bladexdsl]

if stuff was free or cheaper we wouldn't have to pirate. the amount of streaming services out now is a fucking joke and they expect you to pay for each and every one? yeah fuck you I know what i will do instead LOOK DOWN

 

[Catastrophic]

My least favorite is purchasing the console, then the online subscription, then for a game, and then the dlc.

Come join the PC crowd. We got:
- Effortless pirating provided by fit girls
- Overpriced PC parts that will somehow end up reimbursing themselves due to how overpriced subscriptions and console games are
- mouse

 

[slaphappygamer]

Come join the PC crowd. We got:
- Effortless pirating provided by fit girls
- Overpriced PC parts that will somehow end up reimbursing themselves due to how overpriced subscriptions and console games are
- mouse

Been a console gamer since birth. I just got in to of taking about 8 years ago. I find myself turning back to a controller. The mouse is just the strangest thing. I do see why someone would like it, but it’s not for me. Games look and run way better though. Hmmm fit girls. I don’t know what that is, but I feel like I need to check in to them.

 

[Catastrophic]

Been a console gamer since birth. I just got in to of taking about 8 years ago. I find myself turning back to a controller. The mouse is just the strangest thing. I do see why someone would like it, but it’s not for me. Games look and run way better though. Hmmm fit girls. I don’t know what that is, but I feel like I need to check in to them.

Controller support in games has vastly improved over the years. You can use pretty much whatever controller you want now in most games.

 

[Blavla]

I even have "pirated" netflix and disney

 

[slaphappygamer]

Controller support in games has vastly improved over the years. You can use pretty much whatever controller you want now in most games.

Hitman has a weird issue, where you can’t crouch with a wireless connection, but it works wired. This is with an xbox elite controller. I prefer wired. The audio out won’t work otherwise. Fit girls are too kind.

 

[Catastrophic]

Hitman has a weird issue, where you can’t crouch with a wireless connection, but it works wired. This is with an xbox elite controller. I prefer wired. The audio out won’t work otherwise. Fit girls are too kind.

Are you using bluetooth to connect the controller? I know at least that the audio out works if you use the Xbox wireless adapter dongle instead.

 

[eriol33]

I have no time to pirate anything due to my backlog. This is why people should spend their money wisely

 

[Marc_LFD]

BASED! Fitgirl men rise up

Say, is Fitgirl a fit girl?

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I have no time to pirate anything due to my backlog. This is why people should spend their money wisely

My Steam, Epic, EA, UbiSoft, and GoG accounts are full of free games I've gotten along the years. PSN and XBL also have some that I bought.

I don't really pirate games, I do pirate shows and movies. I'm just tired of how I'd have to subscribe to a stream service here, another there, and another one over there.

 

[HellGhast]

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... piracy tracker MUSO.

Off topic but circa 2000s there used to be this weird South Korean Suv called MUSO. They used to run on pirated Mercedes-Benz OM-602 Diesel engines, lmfao on the coincidence.

I guess if you want to 'borrow' an engine you can't do any better than an OM-601 or an OM-602 Diesel, they are engines from 1981 when Bruno Sacco's W-201 Baby-Benz, the Mercedes-190 launched, but they are built like battle tanks.

We own a 190-D that's been laid-up and hasn't moved for over 10years but just give the old girl a jump start and that 601 diesel roars to life.

 

[K3Nv2]

Well, duh... Video streaming services increasing their prices while removing/cutting content makes it not worth it. Couple that with more services now than a decade ago and it's no longer a convenient option. If IPTV/"Third-party" services offer that convenience at a much lower cost (if not free) then there's even less of a reason to stay subscribed to Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, etc. Software is something else, but falls under that same umbrella of subscription services. Can you even pay a one-time cost for Adobe products anymore?

Another big issue is games jumping up to $70 with little to almost no return window when a huge number of media is digital these days or the average person doesn't even know that you can do. The price of cable averaged around $65 back in the day with standard packaged. These streaming services like to charge around $10 everything so it's really no different than paying for cable again if you have more than one. Personally I'm subscribed to Amazon Hulu and paramount+ because they have titles on their already that don't make it worth going to the effort of pirating and saving extra storage space on my hard drive as it is.

Going back to gaming I fully support some type of crack for new titles, us people that are already subscribed to these video streaming services can't constantly afford to drop $70 on new titles. You get people saying you're not supporting the devs doing this but the entire cooperation hardly supports the devs and pays them pennies, treats them like dog crap, and want to make the public feel like it's their fault over pirating a published game that's probably crap and rushed out the door making you feel like you just blew $70 out the window. What are we going to do open a tip window for every name on the end credits so we can make sure they get money directly from us? We're being manipulated by the actual cooperation that puts out these games for not wanting to throw all of our entire monies at them. If you like the game we'll enough sure buy it but I won't loose sleep if I decide to never buy the title over it being crap in my personal opinion.

As for music streaming services, almost all your favorite musicians are already on YouTube so theirs really no point in going out of your way in going to a store and spend $16 on a brand new CD release anymore. The big names get paid handsomly through ad revenue averages 500k views, new independent artists get discovered daily via YouTube and what not so they aren't hurting.

Entertainment is such a fickle thing anymore that people automatically expect you need to give tons of money to be able to enjoy. Not all. Enjoy yourself and make wise purchase you enjoy what you want to not what they say you should do.

 

[Deleted member 610824]

Amazing. Cannot wait for people to turn against the corporations. But I mean it already started happening since many big tech companies are going downhill in the stock market.

Anyway, good.

 

[Mahdiart]

wait a minute...why isn't anyone pirating porn?

Speak for yourself

 

[Henx]

It is undeniable that streaming services stopped and started piracy. They just can't stop being greedy, so they will never win. Ridiculous copyright laws. Just look at youtube takedowns.

However this is about UK. People can't pay rent or electricity bills here. Many people sacrifice eating food to give to their kids, etc. It is really really bad here. Hard to imagine someone deciding to buy a movie over basic necessities. So no shit sherlock!

 

[Phearoz]

Thats

No wonder. I wanted to buy some DS games, but holy hell, those are expensive. And there is no way to buy them digital. I hate that.

Thats not piracy - if you cannot legally obtain them.