Video has long been pegged as the biggest driver of global internet traffic, but in terms of mobile, one video service has risen high above the rest.
Read MoreBy Sandvine January 2, 2020
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...
Topics: Netflix, Piracy, Global internet phenomena, Amazon, Internet
By Sandvine November 26, 2019
As Netflix, Amazon, AppleTV+, Disney try to lock viewers into their expensive walled gardens, file-swapping and piracy are making a comeback.
Topics: Piracy, Global internet phenomena, Internet
By Sandvine October 11, 2019
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.
Topics: File sharing, Streaming, Piracy, Global internet phenomena, Vpn
By Sandvine October 8, 2019
How many of us have been using our friends or friends of friends’ Netflix account just to watch a movie? Some of us have even got a combined Netflix subscription so that nobody has to pay a lot of dollars at the end of the month. However, this is not a permanent solution to the increasing rates of streaming services.
Topics: Streaming, Piracy, Global internet phenomena
By Sandvine October 1, 2019
Annoying consumers with too many costly streaming options could backfire, survey suggests.
Topics: Piracy, Global internet phenomena, Internet
By Sandvine September 27, 2019
When IPTV management system Xtream-Codes was taken down as part of an EU anti-piracy operation last week, chaos ensured. With a large proportion of the illicit market estimated to use the software, large numbers of services went dark. According to data provided to TorrentFreak by networking equipment company Sandvine, illicit traffic nosedived by 50%.
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