Latin America. Traffic to websites in Latin America increased by 9% in 2018 compared to the previous year, with more than 14.14 billion total visits to piracy sites. The report was ordered by Alianza and conducted by MUSO, a global expert on digital piracy.
Other key findings from the report include:
There are an average of 51.60 hacking visits per person in 2018.
Streaming website piracy visits increased by 13% during the year 2018, while web download visits decreased by 15% during the year.
Brazil resulted in the highest measured volume of piracy visits with 7.18 billion in 2018.
Uruguay and Chile exhibit the highest demand for pirated content, per Internet user
2019
Web piracy visits during the first half of 2019 (January – June) demonstrate the same growth model, revealing more than 7.29 billion total visits to hacking sites during the first six months of the year.
"These findings account for a very alarming picture of how piracy continues to be a growing threat to the television industry. Piracy directly affects the well-being and growth of the creative content industry. We need prioritization and collaboration from local governments in each of these Latin American countries to help us eradicate this growing problem by establishing legal frameworks that help us build a competitive market. We at Alianza will continue to apply pressure, raise awareness and work closely with each other and the authorities to bring justice to the criminals behind these operations," said Javier Figueras, President of Alianza.
The Impact of Piracy
Currently, piracy is the main threat to content creators, pay-TV operators and programmers in Latin America. The unauthorized retransmission of signals over the Internet has been a long-standing problem for the entertainment industry and one that continues to grow at an alarming rate.
The losses recorded by piracy are valued at trillions of US dollars, which affects the quality of future content, the industry's ability to create more content, and the growth of the entire market as a whole. The prevalence and impact of piracy has been shown to reach governments through tax evasion, local economies through job cuts, and consumers by compromising their personal information.
Risk to consumers
Pirated websites and services contain viruses, malware, and other malicious software that can steal consumer information and harm not only users but also all contacts within your network. Criminals can spy on the consumer, stealing data such as passwords, credit card numbers and other personal information. Intruders can also potentially gain control of the user's devices and threaten to delete their information by asking for a ransom payment in return.
