--- title: 'Online Piracy – Movies and TV Series' url: 'https://argobs.com/en/pirateria-online-cinema-e-serie-tv-2' markdown: 'https://argobs.com/en/pirateria-online-cinema-e-serie-tv-2.md' lang: en date: '2025-06-27' description: 'The film industry As regards cinema and television production, the damage caused by piracy has been evident to the entertainment industry since the 1980s (here is an article showing how things have changed since then). If at first pirates used physical media, such as videocassettes and DVDs, to res…' taxonomy: category: - informatica - pirateria - proprieta-intellettuale --- # Online Piracy – Movies and TV Series 27 June 2025 | IT, Piracy, Intellectual property **The film industry** As regards cinema and television production, the damage caused by **piracy** has been evident to the entertainment industry since the **1980s** (here is [an article](https://ricerca.repubblica.it/repubblica/archivio/repubblica/1987/03/12/sequestrate-oltre-mille-videocassette-pirata.html) showing how things have changed since then). If at first pirates used physical media, such as videocassettes and DVDs, to resell illegal copies, during the 2000s p2p file-sharing platforms began to make their way. As already noted in the article on music piracy (which you can find here), the protagonists of early-2000s piracy were platforms such as **eMule, Limewire** and **Torrent** file download sites, such as **thePirateBay** and many others. Over the last decade, taking advantage of the greater speed of the connections available to users, numerous illegal streaming sites have emerged offering the latest TV series episodes and newly released films. Efforts to counter this phenomenon have seen various actions by the authorities to have these sites blocked in Italy. However, blocked websites periodically reappear under other names and Internet domains. In addition, with the rise of streaming platforms (e.g. **YouTube**, **Vimeo**, etc.), numerous users have used these platforms to publish copyright-protected films and TV series. The providers' reaction has in many cases proved effective (with preventive control of content and immediate response to reports received), although, to date, a great deal of infringing content is still available and easily reachable on the main streaming platforms. However, in a development partly similar to that of the music industry, numerous legal streaming platforms (**Netflix**, **Amazon Prime Video**, **Disney+**, etc.) have appeared in recent years at more or less affordable prices and with a wide selection of titles, causing a decline in the appeal of pirate websites. In contrast to the phenomenon of music piracy, the consumption of pirated films is still very widespread and in the United States alone causes estimated losses of **USD 29.2–71 billion** a year. These figures show that the phenomenon is by no means a problem of the past; indeed, analysts predict that piracy of streaming content will continue to grow by 15% each year. This is largely due to the fact that most users, not subscribing to every streaming platform, often choose to “download” or illegally watch the content they cannot access through their own service. For this reason, even though a large number of films are easily and legally accessible, **piracy has not been completely defeated**. In Europe, piracy has stabilized since 2023, currently averaging 10.2 monthly accesses to pirated content per internet user. European television piracy remains stable at 5.1 accesses per month per user, with streaming continuing to be the most common method, albeit with significant differences between Member States. Overall, film piracy in the EU fell by about 25% in 2023, reaching an average of 0.9 monthly accesses per internet user. Once again, streaming remains the main method, accounting for 74% of accesses, followed by torrenting. **How to intervene** As indicated in the article on [piracy affecting the publishing sector](https://www.argobs.com/le-frontiere-della-pirateria-online-editoria/), here too the strategies to counter the phenomenon are as follows. - Contact the authorities (mainly the Postal Police or the Guardia di Finanza) or hope for proactive action by the latter. - Seek support from a company able to effectively identify unlawful content, monitor the appearance of any new illegal content and remove it through reports to internet service providers. For more information on the above procedures, you can send us a message through our contact form or write to us at . --- ## Navigation - Parent: [News](https://argobs.com/en/news.md) - Previous: [Why Privacy Is Not a Bureaucratic Obstacle](https://argobs.com/en/perche-la-privacy-non-e-un-ostacolo-burocratico.md) - Next: [GDPR-Compliant Management Software: The Code of Conduct approved by the Garante](https://argobs.com/en/software-gestionali-gdpr-compliant-il-codice-di-condotta-del-garante.md)