Russia ranked among the top 3 in pirated content consumption on the internet, with a share of 6% in total traffic. In this respect reports Posted by TorrentFreak.
In the 2023 report, the USA and India became absolute leaders; both countries accounted for 11% of total pirated content consumption. At the same time, India’s indicator increased by 80% year-on-year. TorrentFreak believes that India will overtake the USA and take the first place by the end of 2024. Russia ranks third with a share of 6 percent. England comes next with 3 percent.
A total of 141 billion visits to pirated sites were recorded worldwide during the year; This figure is 12% more than 2019 and 10% more than 2022.
Almost two-thirds (65%) of visits were to sites featuring movies and TV series. A quarter came from anime sites. In the top three with a share of 9% were sources where broadcasts of sports events were recorded.
There are some regional differences in what type of content is most popular. Part of this depends on how easy it is to access legal content in a particular country. For example, while the share of live sports broadcasts in the Asia-Pacific region is 5.3%, this rate can go up to 11.3% in the USA.
Previously Telegram happened It is more popular than TikTok in Russia.