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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[–] hellequin67@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is it not also possible that people have found "better" ways to pirate and are not, therefore, directly visiting the sites.

My personal usage it's most definitely up in the last 12 months but I've never actively searched for anything directly and I don't torrent.

Maybe it's just old school piracy that is down.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No, from experience this is definitely because there is barely anything good these days, also many tv shows take 1 or 2 years to release seasons, gone are the days were we get a 20 episode season per year. Now we barely get 8 episodes every two years.

[–] hellequin67@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that's very true especially regarding TV Shows.

[–] themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago

I miss the days when we used to get 20-25 episodes for example Lost release schedule was amazing. Wonder why it changed.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 3 points 6 days ago

it depends if they're looking at usenet indexers or if integrated torrent searches count as site visits.