Online piracy has spiked amid the coronavirus lockdown. New data from digital piracy analysts Muso shows traffic on piracy sites jumped more than 40 percent following stay-at-home orders in the U.S. and U.K. Details:
Lockdown and stay-at-home orders due to the novel coronavirus have been a big boost for online pirates, with a new study showing double-digit growth in digital piracy across major territories in Europe and North America.
Muso saw a similar pattern across Europe, with visits to film piracy sites up 66 percent in Italy, 50.4 percent in Spain and up 35.5 percent in Germany over the same period. Muso said its figures showed "an unprecedented increase" in visits to online film piracy sites in the last week of March, a jump the group attributed to self-isolation measures. "As more countries enforced lockdown and required citizens to self-isolate, demand for content via piracy grew exponentially," Muso said.
"Piracy or unlicensed consumption trends are closely linked to paid-for or licensed content," says Andy Chatterley, CEO of Muso. "So, just as Netflix has seen large subscriber gains, we have seen a significant spike in visits to film piracy sites."
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