14 DAY TRIAL // Hollywood studios may be fighting tooth and nail to kill online piracy, but they still have a long way to go before reaching their goal, although it is quite likely that this is a phenomenon that will never vanish.
According to a study from Movoto, not even the United States, the country where most copyright holders complaining about torrent sites live, are no strangers to visiting such sites.
“Despite the efforts of various copyright holders, the government, cable companies, and DRM technology, the pirating of movies, TV, and PC games is bigger than ever,” the real estate platform writes in a blog post.
They go on to note that every day millions of individuals within the United States download, seed and share copyrighted material.
Instead of pointing the finger about whether downloading content is a good thing or a bad one, Movoto tries to understand how torrenting plays out across the country. For this purpose, it collected data about the location of seeding nodes from the top 300 most popular torrents, segmented across movies, television shows, and games.
The company then looked over 4 million nodes, 3 million unique IP addresses and hundreds of copyrighted TV, game and movie titles.
According to the data, people in Washington, Hawaii, Florida and Vermont to the most overall torrenting, while those in South Dakota, Iowa and West Virginia will be the most praised by Hollywood protectors of the copyright.
When it comes to the most popular TV shows, “Game of Thrones” takes the crown with 15 states naming it as their favorite. “Penny Dreadful” was also the preferred show in seven states, while others preferred “Fargo,” “24,” “Californication and “The Big Bang Theory.”
“Watch Dogs” is by far the most downloaded game in the United States. “The Elder Scrolls” comes second, while other US states were more passionate about “The Sims.”
As for the movies US citizens like, it seems that “Captain America” was one of the most downloaded ones films in several states, while others loved “Non Stop,” “Godzilla,” “Neighbors,” or “Noah.”
The study was done over 40 days, so it doesn’t exactly create a clear picture about people’s preferences all year long, but it does show what US pirates think is worth downloading from the content currently available online.
While the data is quite nice and telling, it is rather weird that it is a real estate site that conducted the study.
