Why Everyone’s Pirating Movies Again
The Hustle
•November 6th, 2025
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Streaming was supposed to fix piracy. It didn’t.
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Fragmentation, price hikes, password crackdowns, ad tiers, and shrinking libraries pushed visits to piracy sites from 130B in 2020 to 216B in 2024 — a 66% surge. This video tracks how Netflix went from the legal alternative to the trigger point, why modern illegal sites now rival legit platforms on UX, and how a $75B annual leak is the industry’s self‑inflicted pain.
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