In the third quarter of 2021, film piracy sites worldwide recorded around 5.29 billion visits, up from 3.24 billion visits in the third quarter of the previous year. This represents an annual increase of over 60 percent. Compared to the second quarter of 2021, the number of visits to movie piracy sites in the third quarter that year was nearly 17 percent higher. India, Turkey, and the United States were the leading countries for the highest number of visits to film piracy sites worldwide.
Number of visits to film piracy sites worldwide from 1st quarter 2020 to 3rd quarter 2021
(in billions)
measurement of over 35,000 websites of the highest traffic active piracy websites
Supplementary notes
A visit is defined as a "visitor accessing one or more pages within a piracy site. Subsequent page views are included in the same visit until the user is inactive for more than 30 minutes. If a visitor becomes active again after 30 minutes, this is counted as a new visit.
Numbers have been rounded.
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MUSO. (October 27, 2021). Number of visits to film piracy sites worldwide from 1st quarter 2020 to 3rd quarter 2021 (in billions) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved November 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260365/visits-film-piracy-sites-worldwide/
MUSO. "Number of visits to film piracy sites worldwide from 1st quarter 2020 to 3rd quarter 2021 (in billions)." Chart. October 27, 2021. Statista. Accessed November 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260365/visits-film-piracy-sites-worldwide/
MUSO. (2021). Number of visits to film piracy sites worldwide from 1st quarter 2020 to 3rd quarter 2021 (in billions). Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: November 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260365/visits-film-piracy-sites-worldwide/
MUSO. "Number of Visits to Film Piracy Sites Worldwide from 1st Quarter 2020 to 3rd Quarter 2021 (in Billions)." Statista, Statista Inc., 27 Oct 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260365/visits-film-piracy-sites-worldwide/
MUSO, Number of visits to film piracy sites worldwide from 1st quarter 2020 to 3rd quarter 2021 (in billions) Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260365/visits-film-piracy-sites-worldwide/ (last visited November 21, 2024)
Number of visits to film piracy sites worldwide from 1st quarter 2020 to 3rd quarter 2021 (in billions) [Graph], MUSO, October 27, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1260365/visits-film-piracy-sites-worldwide/
