Torrent has been the go-to destination of TV-show and movie pirates for a long years. But now, they have been defeated by streaming sites.
New data shows that Torrent is no longer the most famous pirate site for movies and TV shows. Pirate streaming sites are now teeming with unauthorized videos and they have the vast majority of them. Last year alone, there are more than 57 million visits on the streaming sites, Torrent Freak reported.
Ten years ago, online streaming is a new event. During those times, YouTube was just celebrating its first year online and Netflix was not even rolling out its streaming service. That time, the piracy field looked a bit different since streaming sites were not very famous or non-existent at all. Almost all movie and TV show piracy are linked to torrent.
In the recent years, the field has changed drastically and the streaming websites has taken over the seat as the prime source of video piracy. Nearly 75 per cent of all movies and TV show traffic now goes to websites that streams them, according to a report published by a tracking outfit, MUSO.
MUSO covers 14,000 global piracy websites from a total of 226 countries. Over all, there are 141 billion recorded visits to these pirate sites, as MUSO recorded, last year.
It is also reported that both torrent users and streaming pirates are using desktop machines predominantly to visit the web sites. 72 per cent of streaming users and 77 per cent of torrent users are using desktop.
However, Torrent is still leading on the overall piracy. It still has a total of 44 gigabits per second of traffic at its peak. Other sites such as Popcorn Time which only streams movies are only going up to 18 gigabits per second and even drops to almost zero on some nights. This is because Torrent is not only seeding movies but also other files, music and even operating systems. This is what makes it still the Internet shortcut to illegal files.
