Fresh data for 2024 reveals that while overall pirate site traffic dipped to 216 billion visits, the landscape is shifting dramatically. Publishing piracy is booming, largely driven by an insatiable global demand for manga. In stark contrast, both music and film piracy have tanked. Despite these changes, the United States remains the top traffic source for pirate sites.
Ya know, if you assume each one of those is a person who would otherwise pay $100 a month for all the streaming services, then they are costing the streaming services about $259,200,000,000,000 each year. /s
No, you got that wrong. They’re literally stealing that amount from the creative people doing all the creative work /s
You’re right, my bad. They are stealing that amount from each creator, in fact.
Creators:
How else can I afford another solid gold Humvee? And diamond studded swimming pools, these things don’t grow on trees
“dips” to 216 Billion… still alive then i guess?
Interesting that movie piracy is down, not because access is better, but because there aren’t any enough good movies coming out.
Yeah, I can’t find good movies or tv show these days either. MurderBot is good though. It got to the point that I am thinking of reading books and taking course to alleviate the boredum which isn’t bad. Though I am currently filling the void with manga.
So true. Every movie I’ve torrented lately has been an older movie I couldn’t find on the couple streaming services we subscribe to. No interest in new releases
Why are movies so bad these days?
Disney seems to buy up all of the studios and they do things super safe, which means stale formulas. There are several movies that came out over the past year that I really enjoyed, there just aren’t enough good, not great movies.
A big reason is that the gap between TV and movies has become a lot smaller. In a way, TV has filled the gap left by movies, with a lower cost. Which also results in studios not willing to take risks with movies.
I don’t think they are “so bad”, it’s really just the big American blockbuster market that has declined significantly. It seems to be a common occurrence across all sorts of mediums that people confuse a decline in the quality of the mass market stuff with a decline in the medium as a whole. Additionally, there’s always a bias that occurs with these comparisons because people are often comparing the slop from a brief period of recent history with the greatest hits from the entirety of recorded human history.
Because we don’t care about good art.
It’s a democracy at this point, and all hollywood movies look like Homer’s Car.
There haven’t been many good movies lately. It’s been 3 years since there was one good enough for me to watch in a theater. Hollywood has just been producing large volumes of low quality crap lately.
Most of the music I listen to is from the 70’s through the 90’s. I already have just about everything I want to listen to.
There’s been lots of great movies lately, they’ve just drowned in the massive marketing budgets of copy pasta bullshit sequels.
What I do instead is mostly rely on specific directors that I know produce high quality content like Guy Ritchie, Wes Anderson, and Christopher Nolan (especially work done together with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, but IIRC Jonathan mostly focused on series like Westworld and Fallout after Interstellar).
Another thing to look for is A24 movies. They’re quite unique and usually pushes the limits with story telling. Their older stuff, while great, might though not be everyone’s cup of tea but it seems like they’re trying to mellow it a bit out lately to cater to a larger audience.
I feel like I’ve heard my grandpa say this, things were better back in my day…
Would you mind sharing which movie it was?
The last movie I watched in a theater was Top Gun Maverick.
Not judging your tastes, as I personally enjoy this type of movie as well, but a basic-ass action flick sequel that is nothing but a thinly veiled military propaganda piece with the bare minimum amount of plot needed to glue together a bunch of cool action sequences is your bar for “good enough to see in theaters”, yet you claim you haven’t gone in 3 years because the new movies aren’t any good anymore?
Something isn’t adding up here…
Most pirates in 2025 would be using private trackers or usenet and i doubt either are included in the stats this company gathers.
Its probably correct to say less public and open piracy sites are used these days, like the pirate bay or 1337x… Most no longer exist so its not hard to see why it would seem less popular.
What is a Usenet?
Its like torrenting except you download from a sever directly instead of a bunch of peers, there is no seeding and its always the fastest speed your connection allows.
Also some other stuff unrelated to piracy that will provably just make it sound more confusing then it really is.
I don’t care what happens to the Manga piracy scene, but please don’t touch the Doujin scene 😭, Gooners would retaliate hard
You do not want to pull agro on a mob of internet gooners.
A copy of MUSO’s 2024 Piracy Trends and Insights report can be requested through the official website.
Need piracy to access data about piracy.
Personally, I haven’t visited a public torrent site in years because qBittorrent has search plugins, so things mostly go through the sites’ APIs.
With Jackett, I don’t even really have to check the site for the private tracker I use; the only reason I visit now is to see what’s new and popular in case it seems interesting.
How does one even get to add search plugins on Qbittorrent? And how do you make sure they’re any good i.e you only visit the good ones?
First, you have to enable them; there should be a checkbox in the settings. I think you need to restart qB after this.
Then, in the bottom right corner of the main window, hit the “Search Plugins” button and then select the update button. That will auto-populate with some of the more well-known ones.
If you need a specific site, check out this repo.
Jackett aint a plugin.
Cant remember last time a saw a new movie I wanted to see.
Is it not also possible that people have found “better” ways to pirate and are not, therefore, directly visiting the sites.
My personal usage it’s most definitely up in the last 12 months but I’ve never actively searched for anything directly and I don’t torrent.
Maybe it’s just old school piracy that is down.
No, from experience this is definitely because there is barely anything good these days, also many tv shows take 1 or 2 years to release seasons, gone are the days were we get a 20 episode season per year. Now we barely get 8 episodes every two years.
Unfortunately that’s very true especially regarding TV Shows.
I miss the days when we used to get 20-25 episodes for example Lost release schedule was amazing. Wonder why it changed.
it depends if they’re looking at usenet indexers or if integrated torrent searches count as site visits.
