{"id":2622,"date":"2013-12-31T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2013-12-31T13:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T03:30:16","slug":"piracy-continues-to-be-a-major-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/?p=2622","title":{"rendered":"Piracy continues to be a major problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As 2013 draws to a close, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/game-of-thrones-most-pirated-tv-show-of-2013-131225\/\">TorrentFreak<\/a><\/span>?has published their annual?list of the most-pirated TV-shows. Unsurprisingly top of the list was HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones, closely trailed by Breaking Bad (which aired its final season ever this year).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/game-of-thrones-most-pirated-tv-show-of-2013-131225\/\">TorrentFreak<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">the estimated download numbers are per single episode of the most downloaded TV-shows worldwide (per single episode) for 2013;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">the download numbers are estimated by TorrentFreak based on several sources, including download statistics reported by public BitTorrent trackers;<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">online streaming and cyberlocker downloads are not included in the estimated download data since there are no public sources to draw data from; and<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">the total piracy numbers will therefore be significantly higher.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We have included the &#8216;Aus Broadcaster&#8217; column (to show which channel broadcasts the content on a &#8216;first run&#8217; basis in the Australian market) in the below list for convenience to our Australian readers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2013\/12\/Top-10-Piracy-List.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2623\" alt=\"Top 10 Piracy List\" src=\"http:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2013\/12\/Top-10-Piracy-List.png\" width=\"568\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Top-10-Piracy-List.png 887w, https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Top-10-Piracy-List-300x108.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The above figures indicate that digital piracy continues to be a major problem worldwide for content creators and distributors (and no doubt locally as well &#8211; see more?<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/?p=2167\">here<\/a><\/span>). For example, an HD episode of the final season of Breaking Bad retails at A$3.49 on the Australian iTunes store. According to?<a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/game-of-thrones-most-pirated-tv-show-of-2013-131225\/\">TorrentFreak<\/a>,?the most pirated episode of Breaking Bad was downloaded 4.2 million times worldwide. Using the Australian iTunes store episode retail price, this equates to $14,658,000 in lost sales for the producers\/distributors of Breaking Bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Current state of play<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2013, we have seen Australian networks dramatically improve their &#8216;fast-tracking&#8217; of US-made shows. For example, Foxtel&#8217;s Showcase broadcast shows such as Dexter within minutes of their US broadcast. tenplay also had a similar strategy for the season premiere of Homeland.?These are encouraging signs for Australian consumers and will hopefully lead to reduced digital piracy rates in Australia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Also with the number of catch-up services available in Australia growing, including the rumored launch of Netflix, the number of illegal downloads in Australia will hopefully decrease over the short term.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Looking Ahead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2013 list of TV&#8217;s most illegally downloaded episodes shows that the worldwide battle against digital piracy is not over and content producers\/distributors and lawmakers must continue to work together to create frameworks that help reduce digital piracy rates.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the end of the day, digital piracy is tantamount to stealing and it must be stopped.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/game-of-thrones-most-pirated-tv-show-of-2013-131225\/\">?Game of Thrones? Most Pirated TV-Show of 2013<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 2013 draws to a close, TorrentFreak?has published their annual?list of the most-pirated TV-shows. Unsurprisingly top of the list was HBO&#8217;s Game of Thrones, closely trailed by Breaking Bad (which aired its final season ever this year). According to TorrentFreak: the estimated download numbers are per single episode of the most downloaded TV-shows worldwide (per&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/?p=2622\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Piracy continues to be a major problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[405,9,5,174,39,3],"tags":[1010,457,1002,1005,848,1008,1006,602,1007,1004,1003,1001,1009],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2013\/12\/photo1.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p25SQa-Gi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/2649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.frostglobal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}