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Online Piracy Is More Popular Than Ever, Research Suggests (torrentfreak.com)

Posted by msmash on from the never-ending-quest dept.

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.

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  1. Pulling content = Piracy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re:Piracy and purchasing coexist peacefully by ArhcAngel · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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.

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