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    Default Canadians adopt Kodi for pirated film, TV content, report says

    Canadians adopt Kodi for pirated film, TV content, report says

    April 5, 2018

    A report suggests Canadians who stream pirated TV and film content have shifted almost entirely from using BitTorrent technology to the more user-friendly Kodi software that’s commonly installed on TV set-top boxes running Google’s Android operating system.

    The Waterloo, Ont.-based network management company Sandvine analyzed anonymized data from 100,000 Canadian households last year and found about one in 10 had at least one set-top box, computer, smartphone or tablet running the Kodi software, which can be used to access legal content but is more commonly known for offering links to TV shows and movies.

    Sandvine estimates about 7 per cent of the studied Canadian households were using Kodi to access pirated content, compared to 6 per cent of the U.S. households it looked at separately.

    Another form of pirated streaming, which requires a monthly subscription to watch thousands of live TV channels from around the world, was estimated by Sandvine to be used by about 8 per cent of the Canadian households.

    Sandvine notes these live TV streams accounted for about 7.5 per cent of the downloaded data used by Canadians during peak evening hours. In comparison, Netflix was tied to about a third of the data Canadians used during evening prime-time hours, while YouTube was close to 20 per cent.

    The report notes that while BitTorrent accounted for as much as 15 per cent of daily traffic in Canada in 2014, it was down to just 1.6 per cent in September. While BitTorrent can be used legitimately to distribute content, Sandvine believes the use of BitTorrent in Canada for legal content “is negligible.”

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