The dynasty of not paying for journeys to Westeros continued in 2024. After a six-year run from 2012-2017 when Game of Thrones was the most pirated present on the web, its successor Home of the Dragon took the doubtful title again in 2022 and now, once again, it tops the record in 2024.
The information comes from TorrentFreak, which notes that the rankings are based mostly on site visitors from BitTorrent. It’s a strong indicator however solely a small portion of the particular variety of issues being pirated from different websites that—clearly—don’t report viewership. Plus, this record doesn’t embody most anime reveals, which possible skews the rankings considerably. However, right here’s the record.
- Home of the Dragon (HBO)
- The Boys (Prime Video)
- Shogun (Hulu)
- Arcane (Netflix)
- The Penguin (HBO)
- Fallout (Prime Video)
- Reacher (Prime Video)
- Silo (Apple TV+)
- Dune: Prophecy (HBO)
- Halo (Paramount+)
A couple of issues right here. To begin with, pay on your reveals. We don’t condone piracy and suppose if individuals are going to place their effort and time into making cool issues for you, you need to thank them by acquiring them legally. That mentioned, we understand piracy is a truth of life as of late and one thing many individuals do frequently. We additionally discover a number of issues about this record fascinating. For instance, that it’s so genre-specific not simply this yr, however most years. It clearly speaks to a sure form of fan who pirates TV reveals. Somebody who loves sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, video video games, and so on.
It’s additionally fascinating to consider the place the reveals come from. TorrentFreak notes that in 2023, Netflix didn’t have any reveals on the record, however this yr it has Arcane. As a result of Netflix has such an enormous market share of streamers, the thought was possibly it was much less inclined to piracy, however clearly, that’s not the case. Possibly it was simply that final yr didn’t have a present web pirates cared about. We’d enterprise to guess, with Squid Sport now again, Stranger Issues returning, and extra, 2025 will see Netflix on there extra persistently.
The record additionally, in a means, speaks to which providers individuals are not paying for. Prime Video wildly leads the pack with three reveals. You’d anticipate that to be one most individuals have, just because it comes with different advantages such because the Prime delivery on Amazon. HBO has two reveals and whereas pirates definitely don’t pay for cable, possibly they’d pay for its barely inexpensive streaming service, Max. Then, in fact, there are Apple TV+ and Paramount+ which each make extra sense as they’re definitely on the smaller facet as compared. It’s lots to digest.
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