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Between Netflix, Hulu, and Disney+, it seemed like streaming giants might have finally won. Gen Z is proving that piracy will never die.

Sandvine is a leading provider of network intelligence for network operators. At the heart of its solution stack is a data collection technology that enables it to ‘classify’ all network traffic in real-time and understand the most granular aspects of the voice, video, and data streams that traverse the network.

The company sees and captures real-time...

• More than a third of IPTV subscribers are using Amazon’s Fire TV, while another third uses MAG Boxes.
• Piracy rates around the world have increased by about 3% on average, as people want to access content that is out of reach.
• In the vast majority of cases, people engage in pirating activities to access regional, sports, and news content.

A study...

Network intelligence solutions provider Sandvine has released the 2020 Mobile Internet Phenomena Report, which analyses how applications are consuming the world’s mobile Internet bandwidth.

As we enter a new decade it’s a good time for a balance about social media evolution and their impact on the economy. I started this blog at the beginning of the decade when social media were starting to become broadly adopted right to focus on what I thought was going to have a greater impact on the economies in the years to come. And it looks like I...

Tech firms look for solutions as data centres use huge amounts of power to fuel streaming and social media.

House of Money, The Crown or Stranger Things – only at Netflix. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel or Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan however, are exclusive content from Amazon Prime Video. Game of Thrones and Chernobyl, on the other hand, can only be seen on Sky. Apple TV + advertises exclusively with The Morning Show and The Handmaid's Tale can only be found on the...

As Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV+, Disney try to lock viewers into their expensive walled gardens, file-swapping and piracy are making a comeback.

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The latest Internet traffic report from Sandvine shows that global file-sharing traffic continues to rise. The same is true for VPN usage, which saw a drastic increase over the past year. According to Sandvine, increased fragmentation among legal video streaming services likely plays an important role in these trends.

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