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Online Piracy Is More Popular Than Ever, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com)
An anonymous user writes: A broad and detailed report from piracy tracking outfit MUSO shows that visits to pirate sites went up last year. The company recorded more than 300 billion visits in 2017, which suggests that "piracy is more popular than ever." TV remained the most popular category and most pirates prefer streaming over torrents or direct downloading.
The content on legal services is shrinking all the time, so we are forced to pirate to get what we paid for. Plus the BBC dosen't get to complain about piracy because we pay our licence fees.
Ahh...I see the problem there. The ***aa's don't make any money off of concerts and fan events. Like musicians don't make any money off of album sales. So the money is going to the actual artists not the blood suckers who go after pirates.
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it." - K
Now, every single for-pay streaming site generates their own content, and that's a conflict of interest for the consumer side, as those streaming sites will not lease out (certainly not for a reasonable amount) their original content to other streaming sites. So if I want to watch Game of Thrones, I need to subscribe to HBO. If I want to watch Black Mirror, I need to subscribe to Netflix. If I want to watch The Tick, I need to subscribe to Amazon Prime. If I want to watch Castle Rock, I get to subscribe to Hulu. And in a couple years, if I want to watch ANYTHING from Disney/Pixar/Marvel/Lucasfilm/Fox(probably), I'll have to subscribe to Disney's streaming service.
Exclusive contracts and exclusive content drive piracy. Period.