Batu69 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 An in-depth analysis of billions of worldwide visits to torrent, streaming and download sites has revealed that Europe is a hotbed for piracy. The piracy rate is the highest in Latvia, where nearly half of the population visits pirate sites, and the entire global top ten is made up of European countries. Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. Every day pirate sites are visited hundreds of millions of times. Piracy tracking outfit MUSO has documented the piracy landscape with data from 14,000 of the largest global piracy sites. In total, the company recorded 141 billion visits to pirate sites last year alone. But where are these pirates coming from? In absolute numbers the United States clearly comes out on top. With nearly 10 billion visits to streaming portals and over 3 billion to torrent sites, the U.S. beats all other countries. Perhaps not a surprise, as the U.S. is one of the largest countries in the world with a high Internet penetration. Things get more interesting, however, when we look at the piracy rate based on the number of Internet users around the world. Data MUSO exclusively shared with TorrentFreak, shows that different countries float to the top when the Internet population is taken into account. A comparison of the top 50 countries with the most piracy traffic shows that Europe in particular has a persistent piracy problem. In fact, all of the 10 countries with the highest online piracy rates are in Europe. Latvia comes out on top with a massive 46% of the Internet users visiting pirate sites, followed by Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Spain and Greece. The top 10 piracy havens is completed by Serbia, Ireland, Romania and Sweden. The first non-European country in the list is Australia, with a piracy rate of 16%, followed by Israel. Canada is the first North American country, located in the middle of the bunch, with a piracy rate of 11%. When taking the size of the Internet population into account, the United States is actually one of the countries with the lowest piracy rates, just under 5%. The UK also has a modest piracy rate with nearly 8%. Most surprising, perhaps, is the low piracy rate in Germany, where less than 2% of the Internet population are considered to be “pirates.” Vietnam closes the list with just over 1%. The dataset includes visits to both international and local pirate sites, and MUSO believes that it’s an accurate overview of the global piracy landscape. The current list is based on data from 2015 and it will be interesting to see if these rankings will change over time. — Below is the top 50 in reverse order. China, Japan and Korea were excluded as MUSO didn’t have sufficient sites representing these countries to accurately include them. Top 50 pirate countries by relative piracy rank. TorrentFreak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Despite the growing availability of legal options, online piracy remains rampant. Every day pirate sites are visited hundreds of millions of times. Piracy tracking outfit MUSO has documented the piracy landscape with data from 14,000 of the largest global piracy sites. In total, the company recorded 141 billion visits to pirate sites last year alone. But where are these pirates coming from? In absolute numbers the United States clearly comes out on top. With nearly 10 billion visits to streaming portals and over 3 billion to torrent sites, the U.S. beats all other countries. Perhaps not a surprise, as the U.S. is one of the largest countries in the world with a high Internet penetration. Things get more interesting, however, when we look at the piracy rate based on the number of Internet users around the world. Data MUSO exclusively shared with TorrentFreak, shows that different countries float to the top when the Internet population is taken into account. A comparison of the top 50 countries with the most piracy traffic shows that Europe in particular has a persistent piracy problem. In fact, all of the 10 countries with the highest online piracy rates are in Europe. Latvia comes out on top with a massive 46% of the Internet users visiting pirate sites, followed by Bulgaria, Lithuania, Croatia, Spain and Greece. The top 10 piracy havens is completed by Serbia, Ireland, Romania and Sweden. The first non-European country in the list is Australia, with a piracy rate of 16%, followed by Israel. Canada is the first North American country, located in the middle of the bunch, with a piracy rate of 11%. When taking the size of the Internet population into account, the United States is actually one of the countries with the lowest piracy rates, just under 5%. The UK also has a modest piracy rate with nearly 8%. Most surprising, perhaps, is the low piracy rate in Germany, where less than 2% of the Internet population are considered to be “pirates.” Vietnam closes the list with just over 1%. The dataset includes visits to both international and local pirate sites, and MUSO believes that it’s an accurate overview of the global piracy landscape. The current list is based on data from 2015 and it will be interesting to see if these rankings will change over time. — Below is the top 50 in reverse order. China, Japan and Korea were excluded as MUSO didn’t have sufficient sites representing these countries to accurately include them. Top 50 pirate countries by relative piracy rank.
RejZoR Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Yeah, well, no shit Sherlock. We only needed 10 years for Netflix to arrive to our forsaken land and even now it's missing tons of content only available to US users. Spotify and Pandora? Pheh, what's that? Deliver us goods and we won't pirate shit. Music and movie industry haven't learned ANYTHING from Steam and GOG. Most people can't even be bothered pirating games because you can get all games there. Region limits are very rare. Opposed to movies and music which is almost always exclusively for US people only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pequi Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 22 minutes ago, RejZoR said: Spotify and Pandora? Pheh, what's that? You got me with "Netflix". Wassat ? ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 43 minutes ago, RejZoR said: Opposed to movies and music which is almost always exclusively for US people only. LOL you make no sense most movies come out in other countries on blu-ray and DVD in other countries before you can get them in the US . iTunes Store is in 155 countries they have cheap movies and music and most the time leaks out from Europe or Asia. the Blu-Ray will be out in the USA by the time iTunes Store has them in the USA. Netfilx is mostly old movies besides a few tv shows they do, no way id buy it for old movies and a few TV shows. Pirated TV shows mostly come out of the USA and Canada .because they air there 1st..If they air somewhere else 1st they come from there .Many streams in the USA are locked for 2 weeks for free viewing so it airs on TV 1st .Some you have to pay extra for on TV and there sort like Netflix (pay cable tv) Pirated Movies come from everywhere though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pc71520 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 13 hours ago, Batu69 said: Europe is a hotbed for piracy. We still enjoy some freedom... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SnakeMasteR Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Yeah, well, no shit Sherlock. We only needed 10 years for Netflix to arrive to our forsaken land and even now it's missing tons of content only available to US users. Spotify and Pandora? Pheh, what's that? Deliver us goods and we won't pirate shit. Music and movie industry haven't learned ANYTHING from Steam and GOG. Most people can't even be bothered pirating games because you can get all games there. Region limits are very rare. Opposed to movies and music which is almost always exclusively for US people only. Steam isn't any better. Lots of regional restrictions and unreleased games in certain regions. Not to mention region locks and geo blocks which Valve actively encourages to use in the system. The biggest flaw is how other regions have missing items in publisher game packs but pay the same amount of money but for less content and get ripped off. Steam isn't really a positive example in regard to delivering depending on where you live. The only good thing about Steam are the sales, that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Whats good for the Goose is good for the gander you need a VPN to watch shows all around the world. so why shouldn't they block you .you block them ? if you ever used this VPN like this one you would know i use to use this one it switched to a different one.. it has ips to remove the restrictions around the word to streaming TV and Movies but i switched https://nordvpn.com/servers/ Each country has restrictions on there stuff ..Places like Germany blocks certain YouTube videos themselves. because they wanted one penny for every video played.ts legal to stream porn there but they block YouTube music videos over money .. http://www.dw.com/en/german-youtube-blocks-access-to-music-videos/a-4145236 Old saying is you point one finger at someone you're pointing 4 back at yourself and European pirates are the worse to make up excuses for doing it. And i read a lot topics about this for the last 5 years (I done heard it all a million times) and the USA pirate more than any place. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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