LOST: The Most Popular TV-Show on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on November 02, 2006An average episode of the hit series LOST is downloaded more than 500,000 times on BitTorrent, making it by far the most popular TV-show shared over the Internet, and one with approximately 5% of all its viewers watching via BitTorrent.
Determining what the most popular TV show is on BitTorrent is not an easy job. While companies like Infofilter and BigChampagne generate daily and weekly stats, I’ve found out that these are not really accurate. Both companies use an automated stats collecting procedure which obviously needs some further calibration.
So I spent a week tracking the most popular TV torrents, and LOST came out on top.
For every popular TV-show I’ve summed up all the torrents with 100+ seeds one week after the release. Initially I also planned to count torrents with less seeds, but that didn’t add much to the total number of downloads. However, it does mean that the actual figures might be slightly higher (about 5%).
These stats are from public trackers only, so the actual number of downloads is actually a lot higher (nearing 1 million downloads). However counting public trackers only will give a good impression of what the most popular TV torrents are.
This is the top 3 of last weeks most popular TV torrents).
Eztv’s “Lost S03E04 HDTV XviD-XOR” torrent was by far the most popular, and was downloaded more than 270,000 times.
The higher quality release (hr.hdtv) is becoming more and more popular and was downloaded 60,000 times. Hr.hdtv releases have a higher resolution, most often around 960×540 which is half the size of the original HDTV broadcast. A 45 minute show is usually 700MB instead of 350MB like the other releases.
Other shows that are worth mentioning are: Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, Desperate Housewives, South Park, Weeds, Jericho and Nip Tuck.
You could see this as the rest of the top 10. However, it is harder to make an accurate list as the total number of downloads decreases.
The popularity of online TV distribution has not been unnoticed. Apple’s iTunes store sold over 45 million TV shows in its first year, and more and more content distributors are currently exploring ways to sell their shows online. And I’m sure we will see a decline in illegal downloads as soon as they come up with a product that can compete with the “illegal” TV torrents.
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hi how are you i like your show
he likes lost doesnt that tell you something
[quote comment="18908"]lets wait on season 6 of 24, I am sure it can beat lost ;)[/quote]
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good shows but not like heroes hhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrroooooooooooooooeeeeeeeeeeesssssssss is the best
i agree heroes the best show i ever seen
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Hereos is all plot and no action. Endless dicking around is all they’ll ever give you. Kinda like having sex and never coming. Gets to be extremely frustrating. You can’t have a show with superheroes and never have any decent super hero battles. It’s absurd.
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Please, no offense, but if you think Heroes is the best show you’ve ever watched than you have not seen more than a few episodes of LOST.
Lost is 10x better than Heroes and I’ve watched both.
And I majored in Tv Show Quality so I would know.
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I don’t use torrent either. Better download directly like on http://tvload.us
Faster and more secure.
Heroes is kinda weird at best but compelling. The first season mentioned “evolution” and “save the cheerleader” (you know the rest) once a minute, like feeding someone’s addiction. The 2nd season features “God” and “praying” from all the same characters, plus new ones.
We see a nice heroic act, and then the action stops dead to cut to another subplot. Consequences and reactions are interesting too. Why not show those? Too much acting needed? Then we see another grisly murder, but don’t worry they’ll be back somehow especially if they’re a baddy. Though you never know who’s going to turn good, bad, or stupid.
If only Clare bear would stop trying to demolish herself for the experience. Btw guys she’s 26 not 15
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