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.
Interesting that movie piracy is down, not because access is better, but because there aren’t any enough good movies coming out.
Why are movies so bad these days?
Disney seems to buy up all of the studios and they do things super safe, which means stale formulas. There are several movies that came out over the past year that I really enjoyed, there just aren’t enough good, not great movies.
So true. Every movie I’ve torrented lately has been an older movie I couldn’t find on the couple streaming services we subscribe to. No interest in new releases
Yeah, I can’t find good movies or tv show these days either. MurderBot is good though. It got to the point that I am thinking of reading books and taking course to alleviate the boredum which isn’t bad. Though I am currently filling the void with manga.
Imo this year had a pretty good lineup for TV shows. So far we’ve had severance s2, Andor s2, the pitt, adolescence and the rehersal. All outstanding television imo. Murderbot is decent, but the 20-25min episodes per week are just way to short.
Fresh data for 2024 reveals that while overall pirate site traffic dipped to 216 billion visits,
disney+ and netflix wish they could get that engagement
There haven’t been many good movies lately. It’s been 3 years since there was one good enough for me to watch in a theater. Hollywood has just been producing large volumes of low quality crap lately.
Most of the music I listen to is from the 70’s through the 90’s. I already have just about everything I want to listen to.
There’s been lots of great movies lately, they’ve just drowned in the massive marketing budgets of copy pasta bullshit sequels.
What I do instead is mostly rely on specific directors that I know produce high quality content like Guy Ritchie, Wes Anderson, and Christopher Nolan (especially work done together with his brother, Jonathan Nolan, but IIRC Jonathan mostly focused on series like Westworld and Fallout after Interstellar).
Another thing to look for is A24 movies. They’re quite unique and usually pushes the limits with story telling. Their older stuff, while great, might though not be everyone’s cup of tea but it seems like they’re trying to mellow it a bit out lately to cater to a larger audience.
I don’t care what happens to the Manga piracy scene, but please don’t touch the Doujin scene 😭, Gooners would retaliate hard
Personally, I haven’t visited a public torrent site in years because qBittorrent has search plugins, so things mostly go through the sites’ APIs.
With Jackett, I don’t even really have to check the site for the private tracker I use; the only reason I visit now is to see what’s new and popular in case it seems interesting.
