

In fact, streaming accounts for 80% of piracy in the U.S. Stats on unlicensed streaming are hard to pin down, but estimates range from 53% of millennials accessing illegal streams in one month to 78.5 billion visits to piracy sites in 2015.Īnd with more and more (and more and more) streaming services entering the fray - and adding digits to TV bills - every month, it’s unlikely we’ll see a slowdown anytime soon. “If you go around the world, I think you’re right, that Game of Thrones is the most pirated show in the world,” Time Warner exec Jeff Bewkes said in 2013. For reference, that’s 54 million people - around three million more than the population of South Korea. More than 75% of them did so through a pirated stream or download.


Within 24 hours of airing, more than 71 million people had watched the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones.
