MUSO report: The most visited US pirated resource sites, China No. 18

MUSO, an international anti-piracy consulting company, recently released its 2017 annual report. The data shows that last year, the number of websites visited by pirated resources reached 300 billion times, which was 1.6% higher than the previous year (2016). The United States is visiting piracy. The country with the highest number of sites had a total of 27.9 billion visits; followed by Russia, India and Brazil, China ranked 18th.

According to the statistics, the top 10 countries visited by pirated resource websites are: the United States (27.9 billion), Russia (20.6 billion), India (17 billion), Brazil (12.7 billion), Turkey (11.1 billion) , Japan (10.6 billion), France (10.5 billion), Indonesia (10.4 billion), Germany (10.2 billion), and Britain (9 billion). China's piracy resources were 4.6 billion visits, ranking first 18 bits.

In addition to the increase in overall visits, MUSO's statistics also show the trend of piracy in different areas. Among them, the visits to pirated websites for TV programs and musical works rose by 3.4% and 14.7% respectively over the previous year, and the visits reached 106.9 billion times respectively. And 73,900 million times; movie related pirated website visits dropped by 2.3% to 53.2 billion times.

The report also presents other features of piracy. For example, 53% of piracy activities occur on unlicensed streaming media platforms, which means that these platforms have become the most popular entertainment consumer media. In addition, 94% of TV piracy. The behavior and 77% of film piracy occurred in the United States. The proportion of mobile site access to pirated resource sites reached 87%, and the PC side was 13%.

In addition, piracy through Torrent (P2P, BT download) showed signs of recovery. MUSO speculated that this phenomenon occurred because the pirated sites were blocked or shut down.