Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Streaming was supposed to fix piracy. It didn’t.
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Piracy is back, and this video explains why it is increasing in today’s streaming era. Fragmentation, price hikes, password crackdowns, ad tiers, and shrinking libraries have pushed online piracy visits from 130B in 2020 to 216B in 2024, a 66% surge. We explore how piracy took over, why it won, and how platforms like Netflix went from solving piracy to becoming a key inflection point in the streaming wars. You’ll also see why modern sites like The Pirate Bay now rival streaming services on user experience, and how this $75B annual problem raises questions about how bad piracy really is.
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Streaming was supposed to fix piracy. It didn’t.
Want more of The Hustle? Click here: đź”— clickhubspot.com/968d23
Piracy is back, and this video explains why it is increasing in today’s streaming era. Fragmentation, price hikes, password crackdowns, ad tiers, and shrinking libraries have pushed online piracy visits from 130B in 2020 to 216B in 2024, a 66% surge. We explore how piracy took over, why it won, and how platforms like Netflix went from solving piracy to becoming a key inflection point in the streaming wars. You’ll also see why modern sites like The Pirate Bay now rival streaming services on user experience, and how this $75B annual problem raises questions about how bad piracy really is.
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About HubSpot:
HubSpot is a customer platform that provides education, software, and support to help businesses grow better. The platform includes marketing, sales, service, commerce, operations, and website management products that start free and scale to meet our customers’ needs at any stage of growth. Today, thousands of customers around the world use HubSpot’s powerful and easy-to-use tools and apps to attract, engage, and delight customers.
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