Why Everyone’s Pirating Movies Again

The Hustle November 6, 2025
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Streaming was supposed to fix piracy. It didn’t. *Want more of The Hustle? Click here:* 🔗 https://clickhubspot.com/968d23 Fragmentation, price hikes, password crackdowns, ad tiers, and shrinking libraries pushed visits to piracy sites from 130B in 2020 to 216B in 2024 — a 66% surge. This video tracks how Netflix went from the legal alternative to the trigger point, why modern illegal sites now rival legit platforms on UX, and how a $75B annual leak is the industry’s self‑inflicted pain. Subscribe to The Hustle: 🔗 https://clickhubspot.com/vu3l Get the 5-minute newsletter keeping 2M+ innovators in the loop 🔗 https://clickhubspot.com/3kln About HubSpot: HubSpot is a customer platform that provides education, software, and support to help businesses grow better. The platform includes marketing, sales, service, commerce, operations, and website management products that start free and scale to meet our customers’ needs at any stage of growth. Today, thousands of customers around the world use HubSpot’s powerful and easy-to-use tools and apps to attract, engage, and delight customers. #TheHustle #HubSpot

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