There were more than 17 billion visits to music piracy websites worldwide last year, a staggering 13 percent increase from 2022, according to research firm Muso. After years of downturn in music piracy brought about by streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music, the uptick is somewhat startling. According to Muso's report, the increase shows an urgent need for the [industry] to understand the changes continuing to drive consumers toward unlicensed channels.
Chatterley says there are multiple factors causing the resurgence, but he suggests that in some cases it's a matter of people not being able to afford music streaming services. In others it's a matter of mobile data costs being high in some regions, leading people to download tracks to their phones over Wi-Fi rather than streaming them over a mobile data connection. He points to one specifically surprising stat in Muso's findings: Some 40 percent of the music piracy the firm tracked went to sites that rip the audio from YouTube videos and turn it into downloadable music files. That represents the largest share of piracy, according to Muso's data-more than illegal streams, torrents, or other forms of web dow.
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