Group-IB observed record high pirated movies views in Russia and the market has grown by 21% since 2016. Online-pirates shot screen copies of 280 movies in the first 9 months of 2018, which accounted for 80% of all released films in 2018 so far. For creating a pirated site it would take about $240 and the pirated website starts paying off after 80,000 views. The monthly income of pirated websites administrators can reach up to $10,000.”]
Source: https://gbhackers.com/russians-highest-pirated-movies/