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Previously, illegal streaming was treated as a misdemeanor. Within that, the Protecting Lawful Streaming Act of 2020 (PLSA) increases criminal penalties for those who, on a large scale, “willfully and for commercial advantage or private financial gain, illegally stream copyrighted material.

In December 2020, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2021. The Protecting Lawful Streaming Act of 2020 economy at least $29.2 billion in lost revenue each year.” Economy report by the Global Innovation Policy Center estimates “that global online policy costs the U.S. The Impacts of Digital Piracy on the U.S. In fact, streaming accounts for 80% of piracy in the U.S.

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.Īnd with more and more (and more and more) streaming services entering the fray - and adding digits to TV bills - every month, it’s unlikely we’ll see a slowdown anytime soon. “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. For reference, that’s 54 million people - around three million more than the population of South Korea. More than 75% of them did so through a pirated stream or download. Within 24 hours of airing, more than 71 million people had watched the premiere of the final season of Game of Thrones.