Web traffic to illegal film downloading sites surged by 41% in the US during the last seven days of March, compared to the last week of February, according to London-based online piracy watchdog Muso.

Meanwhile, the UK saw a similar increase with 43%, while other countries saw even greater spikes, such as Spain (50%), India (62%) and Italy (66%).

Despite the jump in illegal film downloads, visits to TV piracy sites remain the top destination between the two. Viewership increased marginally compared to film downloads, by just 8.7% in the US. Muso logged 601.3 million visits to TV piracy sites during the last week of March, compared to just 137.4 million visits to film piracy sites.

Overall, they counted 1.1 billion visits to illegal TV and film sites during the month of March in the US.

Take the 2011 movie “Contagion” — not exactly an “in-demand title, by anyone’s standards,” the Muso report notes, but a relevant viewing choice. “By January 30th 2020, when the coronavirus was declared a global emergency, visits to streaming sites for ‘Contagion’ increased to 30,418 on that single day alone.”

That said, paid entertainment sites are also doing gangbusters, including Netflix, which claimed a record 15.8 million new subscribers in its latest quarterly report, bringing the global total of users to over 180 million.

The new Disney+ streaming service is up to more than 50 million subscribers since they launched five months ago.

“People will find a way to watch what they want to watch,” said Muso CEO Andy Chatterley in the organization’s report. “Piracy demand is going to escalate.”