The Last of Us Was the Most Pirated Show of 2023
WiredHBO’s post-apocalyptic mushroom-zombie series The Last of Us was easily the network’s most popular show of 2023. For its latest annual report, which it shared with WIRED, the firm tracked 730,000 movies and TV episodes and found that The Last of Us amassed 25 percent of the streams and downloads of the 10 most pirated series of 2023 globally. The Last of Us’ blockbuster year also puts it ahead of last year’s most-pirated show, House of the Dragon, which claimed a 17 percent share of the streams and downloads of the 10 most-pirated series. Last year, there were more than 229 billion visits to piracy websites around the world, an increase of 6.7 percent from 2022, a year that saw an even bigger year-over-year jump—18 percent—in piracy. Granted, not every visit to a piracy site means something was pilfered, but it’s also possible more than one film or episode could be pirated in a single trip.
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