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Sometimes you really have to wonder about some legacy entertainment industry execs and their thought process. Warner Bros. is the most aggressively stupid when it comes to willfully going against what consumers want and pushing them to pirate instead.

With 3,620,000 downloads per single episode, Dexter has the honor of becoming the most pirated TV-show of the year.

Despite the fact that Dexter and runner-up Game of Thrones have more downloads than television viewers in the US, the overall number of TV-show downloads is leveling off.

The movie industry claims that piracy is costing them billions of dollars a year.

Luckily for Hollywood, many Americans choose to consume their online media through legal services such as Netflix.

In fact, there are now so many that the total Internet traffic generated by Netflix has outgrown that of BitTorrent.

Most streaming Netflix has been the single biggest source of North American Internet traffic during prime-time hours for a while now, another significant data point in the shift away from traditional sources of movies and TV.

The latest report from the Sandvine research firm shows the trend continues, with Netflix now capturing almost 33 percent of peak downstream traffic.now goes to non-PC devices

Over the years, many Internet traffic reports have been published. Back in 2004, long before the BitTorrent boom had started, studies already indicated that BitTorrent was responsible for an impressive 35% of all Internet traffic.