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How “piracy” trended on Hacker News

“Piracy” was mentioned 31,081 times on Hacker News between 2007 and 2026, peaking in Dec 2011 with 869 that month.

Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “piracy” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.

Top Hacker News stories about “piracy”

1. 1.Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy 1,130 points · 919 comments · 2025 · discuss on HN
2. 2.YouTube’s Piracy Filter Blocks MIT Courses, Blender Videos, and More 1,129 points · 250 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
3. 3.EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales (2017) 987 points · 351 comments · 2021 · discuss on HN
4. 4.Megaupload down, FBI Charges Seven With Online Piracy 698 points · 337 comments · 2012 · discuss on HN
5. 5.Popcorn Time Is So Good at Movie Piracy, It’s Scary 624 points · 410 comments · 2014 · discuss on HN
6. 6.Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy 574 points · 541 comments · 2019 · discuss on HN
7. 7.Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful 566 points · 170 comments · 2018 · discuss on HN
8. 8.Pirates playing a game dev simulator complain about piracy 551 points · 384 comments · 2013 · discuss on HN
9. 9.Russia to legalize software piracy 527 points · 577 comments · 2022 · discuss on HN
10. 10.Show HN: Reverse-Engineering a Switch Lite with 1,917 wires 513 points · 114 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
11. 11.Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly 462 points · 910 comments · 2024 · discuss on HN
12. 12.Facebook’s Piracy Problem 439 points · 236 comments · 2015 · discuss on HN

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