Online TV pirates are outwitting, outplaying and outlasting the latest 9th season of Survivor South Africa on M-Net.
Within hours after Survivor SA: Return of the Outcasts aired last week as part of DStv's premium pay-TV content offering it was available freely online.
In June 2021 it still took just over a day but less than two, for the first episode of the 8th season, entitled Survivor SA: Immunity Island, to find its way to the internet through illegally uploaded copies, followed by the rest of the season's episodes.
But this year – with M-Net airing four episodes per week of the show – the pirating process was even quicker.
The first episode of Survivor South Africa: Return of the Outcasts made its pirate debut last week online on Monday night, mere hours after it started its premiere linear broadcast run on M-Net (DStv 101) on Monday evening.
News24 won't mention any pirate sites offering the episodes but checked the validity and quality of the uploaded and shared episodes of Survivor SA: Return of the Outcasts online which pirates are making available for direct download as well as torrents.
These digital downloads of episodes and torrents of Survivor SA: Return of the Outcasts are of pristine quality – high-definition (HD) episodes, with clear video and audio, without any watermarks and without any M-Net or other corner channel marker logos.
After less than five minutes of searching online, News24 last week found that a popular file-sharing site that hosts content and files as a free cloud storage service, already had the first episode of Survivor SA: Return of the Outcasts on offer to downloaders around the world within hours.
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