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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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Momentum is picking back up for it. It takes time.