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The most pirated series of 2022 were

La Casa del Dragon topped the list of the most pirated series of 2022 on torrent networks, according to the list compiled by TorrentFreak.

There have been no surprises... Disney+ had the dubious honor of leading the statistics the last two years with The Mandalorian and WandaVision, but this year the waters have returned to normal and HBO recovers the first position after "sweeping" for many years in these listed (unintentionally) thanks to the huge success of Game of Thrones.

It should be noted that the TorrentFreak data only includes statistics from public BitTorrent trackers, so the list may fall short of the reality of media piracy. Furthermore, the data excludes platforms like Usenet and countries like China that have the highest level of piracy, so the total volume of pirated content would be much higher.

According to traffic data from previous seasons collected by the specialized piracy surveillance company, MUSO, torrent downloads only constitute a small fraction of the total, around ten percent. And it is that most of the pirate traffic is generated by unauthorized streaming services.

Most Pirated Series of 2022:

1-House of the Dragon (HBO)

2-The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (Amazon Prime)

3-The Boys (Amazon Prime)

4-Moon Knight (Disney+)

5-Halo (Paramount+)

6-Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+)

7-The Book of Boba Fett (Disney+)

8-Stranger Things (Netflix)

9-She-Hulk: Attorney at Law (Disney+)

10-Andor (Disney+)

The list sounds quite real, although as we said what moves in torrent networks today is a minimal part of the total pirated content. One of the few "surprises" is that the top-10 is occupied by newly created series in 2022 and not by the most common ones that repeated positions year after year.

As for the positions, it was clear that the prequel to Game of Thrones would top the list and at a great distance from the second, another blockbuster in this case from Amazon Prime, The Lord of the Rings: the Rings of Power, with which it has competed in the premieres of new series in all areas, including the most pirated. And it is certain that the second seasons will head these lists again unless a bombshell comes out of there.

by Juan Ranchal