Piracy data monitoring specialist Muso has released its 2024 Piracy Trends and Insights Report in which it suggests that in 2024, piracy didn’t vanish – it evolved. Muso tracked 216.3 billion visits to piracy websites in 2024. “While that’s a modest 5.7 per cent decline from 2023, the full picture is far more nuanced,” said […]
Film and TV piracy in Portugal has risen significantly in recent years, exceeding the European average in terms of piracy site visits per internet user. Data from Muso, a piracy audience measurement company, shows 8.4 billion visits to piracy sites in Portugal between 2017 and March 2025, averaging 1,211 visits per user. In the same […]
Data from global consultancy Kearney, and MUSO, a London-based data company providing anti-piracy solutions and market analytics, shows that global video piracy site visits will have risen to an estimated 141 billion in 2023, increasing by 12% since 2019. The study conducted by Kearney and MUSO is based on the measurement of both unlicensed downloading […]
Findings from digital piracy data specialist MUSO, which measure visits to the entire piracy eco-system, indicate that the largest media sector was TV content, which accounted for 46.6 per cent of all traffic to piracy websites. MUSO’s Piracy by Industry data set across the first eight months of 2022 (January to August measures industry-wide traffic […]
MUSO, a London-based data company that provides a complete and trusted view of global piracy and unlicensed media consumption, has received a £3.2 million (€3.8m) investment from Puma Private Equity, a provider of growth capital to small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) across all sectors and regions of the UK. MUSO has seen a 25 per […]
Research from digital experience protection and delivery specialist Akamai Technologies, Pirates in the Outfield, a collaboration between Akamai and anti-piracy, market analytics and audience connection solutions provider MUSO, illustrates how online piracy continues to be prevalent across, and financially detrimental to, a variety of industries. Between January and September 2021, global piracy demand — measured […]