Piracy is facts of life In the entertainment industry, no matter how hard studios try to fight it, and in a time when the streaming industry feels like more and more like cable TV By day——This situation will continue for the foreseeable future.But that doesn’t mean it’s not interesting to know who your audience is Searching on the high seas…A lot of it hasn’t really changed.
The top 10 shows in Torrent Freak’s 2023 annual piracy survey are once again dominated by familiar faces streaming sci-fi, fantasy and superhero themes.This is a popular trend in recent years game of Thrones‘Climax—— Leading torrent sites For nearly its entire run, the legacy continues now with dragon house, It took the crown in 2022 but gave way to pirated streaming content. Here is the list for 2023:
10) tedso (Apple TV)
9) Fifth Generation (Amazon Prime Video)
8) tulsa kings (Paramount+)
7) Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (Apple TV)
6) silo (Apple TV)
5) secret invasion (Disney+)
4) Ahsoka (Disney+)
3) Loki (Disney+)
2) The Mandalorian (Disney+)
1) the last of us (HBO)
It should be noted, as Torrent Freak does, that these statistics only reflect a portion of the pirated content this year. These statistics are specifically for single-episode torrents, not season-long packages, and more specifically, they’re based on data from the torrent platform BitTorrent.Just as television has grown and evolved over the past decade or so, with new formats emerging, so too has piracy, with more and more people turning to Website hosting the stream Pirated content, rather than “traditional” pirated content via downloaded local copies.But even with that in mind, it’s no surprise that for the most part, the most popular shows are those that require a fee to be watched across multiple streaming platforms — even the last of us It fits that, as the hybrid shows both air on premium cable and are simulcast on (HBO) Max.
As the streaming era continues to get bogged down in walled-garden compilations rather than the original promise of providing access to content from various studios in one place, it’s no surprise that people are looking to piracy as an alternative to paying for other subscriptions. A service based on what they’ve already done to try and perform. That certainly seems to be the case, considering one major streaming company is conspicuously absent from this year’s list: Netflix. It’s not that the streaming company isn’t without any big shows this year, but it’s that far more people are subscribing to Netflix than are subscribed to Netflix. Apple TV+ or Disney+ Subscribe…considering the overall trend across many streaming platforms this year Prices keep risingson Cut or Stalled Contentand, can you blame people for not wanting to buy something they already own?
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