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<\/a><\/p>\nMyBroadband\u2019s Piracy and Streaming Survey for 2017 has revealed that many tech-savvy South Africans pirate movies and TV series.<\/p>\n
The survey was completed by\u00a01,587 IT professionals and tech-savvy individuals, providing insight into piracy and streaming trends in South Africa.<\/p>\n
73.85% of respondents said they were an online pirate, or had pirated media, software, or games in the past 12 months.<\/p>\n
Of the respondents who said they pirate online, movies and TV series were their top two content choices.<\/p>\n
Interestingly, more users said they pirated books than games.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0BitTorrent protocol was the most popular service to use for piracy, with the uTorrent\/BitTorrent client the most popular piece of software used to download content.<\/p>\n
The most popular site among local pirates was The Pirate Bay, followed by YTS.AG, and RARBG.<\/p>\n
The graphic below details the tops sites and software used by online pirates, and what content they download the most. Respondents were allowed to pick multiple options for certain questions.<\/p>\n
MyBroadband\u2019s Piracy and Streaming Survey for 2017 has revealed that many tech-savvy South Africans pirate movies and TV series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":73697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[5137,1807,101,301],"class_list":["post-120412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-mybroadband","tag-online","tag-piracy","tag-survey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nNow read:\u00a0All the piracy websites which ISPs in Australia must block<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"