Q4 2022 was a landmark quarter for video piracy – and not in a good way. Few events attract viewers in their billions like the FIFA World Cup, with an estimated 1.5 billion pairs of eyeballs tuning into the mid-December final of the international soccer tournament. That’s nearly 19% of the entire world’s population watching the same event, at the same time. But those are only legitimate estimations. While international matches of such societal significance are generally available on free-to-air terrestrial channels for the masses, there are pockets of communities around the world where millions of viewers are still forced into accessing pirated streams – even for an event as readily available as the World Cup. Reasons can vary. In…