Streaming holds its ground as the most popular way audiences are choosing to access their illegal content. Audiences are choosing less and less to torrent, with it witnessing the sharpest drop in usage across all piracy delivery methods. From January 2016 to December 2016, 77.7bn visits to piracy streaming websites were recorded, 34.0% of this piracy activity was via mobile devices. Despite these changes in behaviour, piracy levels remained relatively static throughout the year, with a 5.2% overall decline in visits to piracy websites from the first to last 6 months of the year.
