TV Content the Biggest Draw to Pirate Sites, Akamai Says
TV was the most pirated industry between January and September 2021, with pirate websites being visited 67 billion times for TV content during that nine-month span, Akamai said Wednesday, citing Muso-provided data. Total visits to pirate sites during that span…
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for TV, film, music, software and publishing content topped 132 billion, Akamai said. Many of the titles being pirated aren't generally available in the areas where visitors are coming from, it said. During that nine months, the U.S. was the biggest location for pirate site visits, at 13.5 billion, with Russia following at 7.2 billion, India (6.5 billion), China (5.9 billion) and Brazil (4.5 billion), Akamai said.