Legitimate OTT platforms see traffic spike after closure of Taiwan's largest piracy streaming site

Taiwan News
Date: 2020/05/18
By: Chris Chang, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A number of Taiwanese over-the-top (OTT) media platforms have launched an online campaign to encourage viewers to choose authorized streaming services when they look for entertainment online.

Last month, Taiwan's Criminal Investigation Bureau teamed up with the Motion Picture Association of America to crack down on Taiwan's largest illegal streaming site, 8maple.ru. Since then, web traffic for many local OTT platforms has increased by over 50 percent, according to LTN.

KKTV, an OTT platform from KKBOX Group, said that hundreds of illegal streaming sites were shuttered after the crackdown on 8maple.ru.

Legal OTT platforms see their newfound surge in traffic as evidence of how the media industry has been sabotaged by piracy. Taiwan loses an estimated NT$28.3 billion (US$943.17 million) due to copyright infringement yearly.
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