More than a third of Pirate Bay uploads are porn

By Konrad Krawczyk January 27, 2014

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You may think The Pirate Bay consists mostly of music and/or games. Well, you’d be wrong on both counts. New data reveals that porn is the second most popular content category on the torrent site, making up 35 percent of all content uploaded to it.

Not only is porn the second most popular type of content uploaded to Pirate Bay, but audio uploads have taken quite a dive as well. According to TorrentFreak, back in November 2008, 9,600 new audio torrents were added to Pirate Bay, making up 27 percent of total new uploads to the site for that month. By comparison, in November of 2013, audio made up a grand total of 10 percent of new torrents on the file sharing site.

Meanwhile, non-porn video torrents are the most popular type of content found on The Pirate Bay, with 32,000 new video torrents added to the site this past November alone. That number represents 44 percent of all uploads to the torrent site for that month. We took a look at The Pirate Bay’s “Top 100” page, which tracks what the 100 most popular torrents are at the moment. Sure enough, the page was dominated by video torrents, littered with shows and movies including The Wolf of Wall Street, Frozen, “Modern Family,” “Revenge,” “The Big Bang Theory,” and more.

It’s worth noting that up until 2012, porn torrents on Pirate Bay were not visible in search unless you were a registered user and logged into the site, TorrentFreak reports. With that in mind, it begs the question of whether porn would’ve been more popular for a longer stretch of time had the registration/login requirement been lifted earlier, or hadn’t existed at all to begin with.

What do you think? Sound off in the comments below.

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