Sad record for the
Wandavision
series
from Disney +, which this year won the award for the most illegally downloaded series in the world.
The ranking of the ten most pirated series was published on December 27 by the specialized site TorrentFreak.
To achieve this placement, he analyzed the data provided by BitTorrent and I Know What You Download
,
among others
,
a service tracking illegal downloads for rights holders.
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Disney's crazy overbidding in content
It is an unfortunate box office for Disney, whose Marvel series occupy most of the first positions.
Loki
takes 2nd place,
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
4th and
Hawkeye as
well as
What If…?
are respectively 5th and 6th in the standings. For each of these series,
“the episodes have been downloaded millions of times”.
And who says piracy means less money for legitimate broadcasters.
A phenomenon that can impact the growth of platforms that invest tens of billions of dollars in the production of original content.
Disney +, the VOD service with 118 million subscribers, only had 2 million subscribers in the last quarter.
“With the current streaming landscape being very fragmented, it seems that many people prefer to hack rather than pay for another subscription,”
TorrentFreak analyzes.
While the emergence of streaming platforms has made it possible to reduce piracy, a recent study by the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that series remain the most pirated cultural products in the EU.
Each month, the French connect about six times to illegal sites.
