Although it's free, downloading illegal content can be cumbersome. But if I can't legally pay for it in this country, I'll find ways,' says Whitehead. 'I only want to pay when there's new stuff, and I'm happy to pay for that. Some illegal downloaders are mending their ways, but others are still breaking cross-border rules to get access to all the shows they want. Torontonian Sean Whitehead says streaming services have cured his illegal downloading ways. Netflix Canada packages start at $7.99 a month.

And that just speaks to the availability of these services and their ease of use, and the price point is often right,' says Deeth. 'When we talk about internet share, Netflix and other streaming services have grown and BitTorrent has declined. Meanwhile, BitTorrent, a file-sharing tool often used for pirating content, accounted for just 2.8 per cent of the same traffic, a significant drop from 7.6 per cent in 2011. 'People are shifting their activities and they've certainly embraced streaming video,' says Dan Deeth with Sandvine, a broadband equipment company that tracks home internet usage.Īccording to its latest 2014 report, over a one-month period, Netflix alone accounted for almost 35 per cent of all downloading data traffic during peak hours in North America.

BitTorrent Netflix and other streaming services have grown and BitTorrent has declined - Dan Deeth, SandvineĪ recent study by a Waterloo, Ont., tech company shows a preference for legal streaming over piracy. Netflix accessed by 1/3 of anglophone Canadian users Netflix and HBO border-hopping: Is anyone getting caught?.Many reformed content pirates are still bending company rules by accessing programs restricted to other countries. Now that easy-to-use streaming services are available at low prices, some viewers are losing the urge to illegally download copyrighted movies and television shows.īut it's not always a squeaky clean transition.

Netflix and the online video streaming craze are taking a bite out of online piracy.

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