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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bittorrent is also only a portion of pirating, but that's showing 3:1 globally, https://marketsplash.com/torrent-statistics/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Complete garbage website. Tons of conflicting info, suppositions, and when you bother to look at the sources, their claims quickly fall apart. For example,

In 2022, pirate website visits hit a record of 215 billion.9

-9. "Average Teenager's iPod Has 800 Illegal Music Tracks" by The Times - written June 2008

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I agree, but I haven't been able to find a lot of good studies past about 2005; and a lot has changed since then.