In 2020, hacking sites recorded a decline in their audience

A 10% drop in traffic to torrent sharing sites was recorded during the year 2020. These data come from MUSO, a company specializing in piracy tracking Faced with this finding which has something to rejoice the giants of

Legal offers have found their audience

You should know that the content of sites is easy to find by relying on search engines. This also applies to strea sitesming illegal than for those involving downloads. Over time, rights holders have spoken out against this trend and the pressure has increased on Google and its competitors. Thus, these illegal platforms are less and less well referenced and it becomes more difficult to access them.

This was also confirmed in 2020. According to figures relayed by TorrentFreak, we can see that search traffic to pirate sites has declined by about a third this year. By observing these data in detail, we can see that the trend is downward from January, but goes up in March, thanks to the containment measures linked to the pandemic. Then, we observe a decrease in May. However, as our colleagues point out, it is precisely this month that Google updated its algorithm. The tech giant has not disclosed whether it includes any SEO changes to torrent sites, but the data tends to suggest so.

Others elements can also explain the drop in audience of these platforms among which the reinforcement legal streaming offers to which many consumers have decided to subscribe this year. Finally, the practice of hacking also seems to evolve with in particular the emergence of illicit IPTV which allows users to access pay-TV programs via a box or an application.