When is streaming illegal? What you need to know about pirated content

Resource Center Internet JS Joe Supan Apr 23, 2024 — 10 min read The current 2020 law targets sites, and businesses that stream pirated content, not the couch surfers among us. Starting price: $76.99/mo. for Hulu Live TV packages available Great for live sports View planson hulu.com Within 24 hours of airing, more than 71 million people had watched the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones.More than 75% of them did so through a pirated stream or download. For reference, that’s 54 million people — around three million more than the population of South Korea.“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. “Now that’s better than an Emmy.”It’s not just Game of Thrones. 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.And with more and more (an...