Fresh data for 2024 reveals that while overall pirate site traffic dipped to 216 billion visits, the landscape is shifting dramatically. Publishing piracy is booming, largely driven by an insatiable global demand for manga. In stark contrast, both music and film piracy have tanked. Despite these changes, the United States remains the top traffic source for pirate sites.

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[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Interesting that movie piracy is down, not because access is better, but because there aren't any enough good movies coming out.

[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Why are movies so bad these days?

[–] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 15 points 6 days ago

Disney seems to buy up all of the studios and they do things super safe, which means stale formulas. There are several movies that came out over the past year that I really enjoyed, there just aren't enough good, not great movies.

[–] Ilandar@lemm.ee 6 points 6 days ago

I don't think they are "so bad", it's really just the big American blockbuster market that has declined significantly. It seems to be a common occurrence across all sorts of mediums that people confuse a decline in the quality of the mass market stuff with a decline in the medium as a whole. Additionally, there's always a bias that occurs with these comparisons because people are often comparing the slop from a brief period of recent history with the greatest hits from the entirety of recorded human history.

[–] rroa@reddthat.com 5 points 6 days ago

A big reason is that the gap between TV and movies has become a lot smaller. In a way, TV has filled the gap left by movies, with a lower cost. Which also results in studios not willing to take risks with movies.

[–] propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe 1 points 6 days ago

Because we don't care about good art.

It's a democracy at this point, and all hollywood movies look like Homer's Car.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, I can't find good movies or tv show these days either. MurderBot is good though. It got to the point that I am thinking of reading books and taking course to alleviate the boredum which isn't bad. Though I am currently filling the void with manga.

[–] golli@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Imo this year had a pretty good lineup for TV shows. So far we've had severance s2, Andor s2, the pitt, adolescence and the rehersal. All outstanding television imo. Murderbot is decent, but the 20-25min episodes per week are just way to short.

[–] THB@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

So true. Every movie I've torrented lately has been an older movie I couldn't find on the couple streaming services we subscribe to. No interest in new releases