In a recent State of the Internet/Security report entitled "Pirates in the Outfield", Akamai discusses the changing landscape of online piracy.
This new report is a collaboration between Akamai and Muso, which presents data on streaming and download piracy activities across a wide range of industries.
This research shows that online piracy continues to be a common practice and has a negative impact on finances across a wide range of industries. Between January and September 2021, global piracy requests hit the 3.7 billion mark for unlicensed streaming and downloads.
This figure is measured by the number of visits to various websites that offer access to movies and television shows, either through a browser or a mobile application, as well as the number of downloads through the Torrent platform.
According to this research, 61.5% of consumers who visit a piracy site access the site directly, while 28.6% actively search for the site.
"The fight against piracy never stops, and there is no ultimate weapon against every type of online piracy. As content developers get better at protecting their content from piracy, criminals are adapting their methods to access protected content," said Steve Ragan, researcher security at Akamai, in the information we have received .
"Piracy doesn't just have an impact on the theft of movies and other content. The real impact goes behind the scenes and results in the people involved in making the films, books and software we use and enjoy losing revenue," he added.
Piracy creates security problems internally in organizations and is another potential vector for attacks that must be prevented in order to prevent important intellectual property rights (IPR) infringement from occurring.
"As our partnership with Akamai emphasizes in this report, working together to deeply understand the latest trends in the ever-changing piracy ecosystem is key to forming an effective anti-piracy strategy instead of segmenting piracy," said James Mason. , CTO Muso, in the same caption.
In addition to the endless demand for pirated material, this report reveals some other information worth noting, including:
A total of 132 billion visits to piracy websites counted between January 2021 and September 2021.
The industries with the most pirated content were television (64 billion total visits), publishing (30 billion total visits), movies (14.5 billion total visits), music (10.8 billion total visits), which includes video games and devices. modern PC software (8.9 billion total visits)
Globally, the United States (13.5 billion), followed by Russia (7.2 billion), India (6.5 billion), China (5.9 billion), and Brazil (4.5 billion) are the five countries with highest number of visits to piracy websites last year.