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Pirate Site Visits Dip to 216 Billion a Year, But Manga Piracy is Booming (torrentfreak.com)

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Fresh data for 2024 reveals that while overall pirate site traffic dipped to 216 billion visits, the landscape is shifting dramatically. Publishing piracy is booming, largely driven by an insatiable global demand for manga. In stark contrast, both music and film piracy have tanked. Despite these changes, the United States remains the top traffic source for pirate sites.

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[-] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

Why are movies so bad these days?

[-] voytrekk@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 month ago

Disney seems to buy up all of the studios and they do things super safe, which means stale formulas. There are several movies that came out over the past year that I really enjoyed, there just aren't enough good, not great movies.

[-] Ilandar@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I don't think they are "so bad", it's really just the big American blockbuster market that has declined significantly. It seems to be a common occurrence across all sorts of mediums that people confuse a decline in the quality of the mass market stuff with a decline in the medium as a whole. Additionally, there's always a bias that occurs with these comparisons because people are often comparing the slop from a brief period of recent history with the greatest hits from the entirety of recorded human history.

[-] rroa@reddthat.com 5 points 1 month ago

A big reason is that the gap between TV and movies has become a lot smaller. In a way, TV has filled the gap left by movies, with a lower cost. Which also results in studios not willing to take risks with movies.