Movie Piracy Rates: A Huge Comeback in the Streaming Age

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Internet distribution of movies and TV shows makes piracy easier, not harder:

- The global movie industry's revenue losses from digital piracy are between $40 and $97.1 billion per year.
- Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.
- Pirated video material gets over 230 billion views a year.
- The United States took the win with nearly 28 billion pirate downloads, followed by India and Brazil.
- 126.7 billion episodes worth of US-produced TV series are illegally downloaded or streamed every year.
- More than any other generation, millennials are normalizing piracy.
- More than 80% of global online piracy can be attributed to illegal streaming services.

I downloaded a few rare horror movies in the early 2000s, and that's about it. Most of them popped up on YouTube over the years.

Anyway...

The United States took the win with nearly 28 billion pirate downloads.

 

[FatFreddysCat]

I have never downloaded a movie. I'm not even sure I would know how to do such a thing.

[Trevor]

I have never downloaded a movie. I'm not even sure I would know how to do such a thing.

Me neither.I once bought a pirate DVD of a movie (SWAT) but I've never pirated a movie.

[Archivist]

Sounds like fun. Where be me eyepatch and parrot? Aharrr!