Approximately 130 pirate streaming services have emerged in the United States in recent years, offering streaming movies, TV series and sports for a subscription of $5 to $10 per month. This was reported by Bloomberg.
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPA) estimates that the three largest alone have nearly 2 million users. Although these sites appear to be legitimate streaming platforms, they are actually distributing stolen content. They generate revenue from advertising and subscriptions, and their annual turnover reaches approximately $2 billion.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce Global Innovation Policy Center estimates that piracy associated with illegal streaming services and file sharing costs the U.S. economy nearly $30 billion a year in lost revenue and nearly 250,000 jobs. Global damage amounts to about $71 billion a year, the publication writes.
The founder of GearsTV, one of the largest pirate services, was sentenced to 5.5 years in prison last year and $30 million in assets were confiscated. At its peak, the service had 100,000 subscribers and $1.5 million in monthly revenue.
According to MPA, the number of visits to pirated sites increased to 215 billion in 2023; This is a record number. The ACE Alliance, created by the MPA to combat piracy, has helped shut down more than 1,400 illegal streaming services in the United States.
Consulting firm Parks Associates estimates that the cumulative loss of legal streaming services in the US from piracy since 2022 will reach $113 billion over the next two years.
“While there is some optimism that new countermeasures and best practices will see piracy begin to stabilize by 2027, there is no consensus among stakeholders as to when this may begin to decline,” Parks Associates analyst Steve Hawley said.
Experts at the end of October 2023 discussed The danger of mass approval of Internet hacking by the Russians.
It was previously known that the majority of Russian players are more likely to play this game. pirate video games.