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James — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:34:36 +0000

The reason we download TV shows is because:
ALL OF OUR TV NETWORKS ARE LIKE 5-10 EPISODES BEHIND THE REST OF THE WORLD.

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By: wow

wow — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:28:48 +0000

Yea i found loads of links on the net

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By: kbot

kbot — Fri, 04 May 2007 15:45:49 +0000

Hey, give the guy a break. There are so many constraints that limit the validity of any honours thesis. Yeah, the sample might be skewed and all the rest of it but you do the best you can in a limited timeframe.His work has clearly sparked discussion and hopefully further research will be undertaken which may wield some more weight with TV networks.

So lets just consider this work a starting point in what will hopefully be a tv revolution in aus. God, we all know its well overdue. And that was probably the motivation for the research in the first place.

By: Little Johnny

Little Johnny — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:17:38 +0000

Ads are getting longer and louder… and it usually takes months to be shown here from the US.

Yep, gotta be careful with those stats people.

Oh, and ONLY 153% of Australians believe John Howard is a wanker! :)

By: rob

rob — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 06:30:19 +0000

I completely agree with the reports implications – why wait to watch a show free to air when u can see it live in american time and have no adds and burn it to dvd – its better quality anyway. People who bag this report get to caught up in the stats – the point is still valid, that is why i reckon they released the new season of OC at the same time as America – they lossing a massive chunk of viewers to torrent users – easy to use and good. Allready seen all of lost and heroes – good stuff, the tv companies need to get a clue and catch up or they will get left behind.

Cheers

By: krazykirk

krazykirk — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 00:16:50 +0000

I’m an Aussie and I download tv shows :D I’m pretty sure lots of other aussies do so as well, as it’s not that hard to figure out how to set up bittorrent and to download shows… Plus I think it’s funny how people from other countries think Aussies are are less computer literate when Australia has one of the largest IT sectors in the world. (I think it does..)

By: Adam

Adam — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:55:06 +0000

I am Aussie and I download everything, even Aussie Shows.

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By: Prime News Blog » Blog Archive » hot wonder woman More Than Half of Australia Downloads TV Shows Over BitTorrent Fri, 15 Dec 2006 13:35:10 +0000 [...] hot wonder woman A University of Sydney study has found that 53% of all Australians download TV shows over BitTorrent on a regular basis. The study also found that one in four people download TV shows at least twice a week. supergirl batgirl wonder womanread more | digg story [...] By: More Than Half of Australia Downloads TV Shows Over BitTorrent « Universe_JDJ’s News Blog Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:26:38 +0000 [...] read more | digg story [...] By: SantaBJ SantaBJ — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:54:02 +0000 The aussies love EZTV :] By: Ekfud Ekfud — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:50:47 +0000 [quote comment="29776"]I am deeply skeptical of this study. The sample was self selecting, small and biased. I very much doubt even 1/20th of the population of Australia is even aware of the existence of bittorrent. Still, it does highlight the problem of general incompetence and grade inflation within universities.[/quote] Actually – not too far from the mark. One of the tracking studies I cover has torrent/p2p application awareness at about 10-12% of the online population (about 7% of the total pop). Apps like LimeWire have an active base of more than 600,000 Aussies a month. By: Ekfud Ekfud — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 05:45:30 +0000 The original article is valid (if slightly misleading in the first % stat that goes up). As far as sample size goes – 800 is perfectly valid. Most election polls are based on considerably less. The hard part is matching the sample frame against who you propose to represent. What you have in this case is a sample of people on tv sites. So the most that can be claimed is that ’53% of tv show site visitors download…’ To the credit of the student, this is part of the online market that has had relatively little research done on it – but market sizing is not a strength of the approach (even though it makes for a good headline). I would be much more interested in using this type of info to work out what types (or specific) shows are being viewed; if there is a difference between ADSL and ADSL 2+ users; how often is it done, are people downloading from work, etc. By: Eli Eli — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 04:08:47 +0000 Go aussies ;) By: More Than Half of Australia Downloads TV Shows Over BitTorrent at Torrentfreak « Tomorrow Belongs to Us Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:26:46 +0000 [...] More Than Half of Australia Downloads TV Shows Over BitTorrent at Torrentfreak [...]
By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:17:34 +0000

“new online study showing 53 per cent of ***respondents*** regularly download TV shows”

Both TorrentFreak and the Digg article have blatantly MISINTERPRETED this study. The study NEVER said “53% of Australians”, it said “respondents”. There’s a world of difference, this wording means the study takes into account the sample bias, i.e. Internet users who are more likely to download TV shows given their technical knowledge. Naturally it’s not representative of all of Australia, just a subset.

@Simon: Unless you’ve got a link to the study, then you can’t actually make those claims, you’re simply going by a one-page summary done by news.com.au. There may have been additional demographic questions that have not been listed, an honours thesis is still pretty big after all.

I would point out though, that Australia has already been recognised as the highest per capita illegal downloader of TV: http://www.cnet.com.au/tvs/0,239035250,240060264,00.htm

By: Simon Sharwood

Simon Sharwood — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:23:26 +0000

I agree with the sceptics above: the study is small, badly sampled and ignores important things like the total number of broadband connections in Australia.
Moreover, this post mis-represents the study as it states that not all of the downloads are illegal. We have legal downloads here in Australia.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 02:23:02 +0000

I went over the news story again…

“53 per cent of respondents”

How can you interpret that as “53% of Australia”
are you a moron Smaran??? You just made statistics up, and posted to Digg to boost your blog.

By: JP

JP — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:56:44 +0000

BAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHA

stupid report, the sample audience was too small and too specific to represent Australia.
Only 60% of Australian’s have home internet connection!!! So this report is saying 88% are engaged in downloading TV shows????

BULLSHIT!

By: someperson

someperson — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:52:14 +0000

I am deeply skeptical of this study. The sample was self selecting, small and biased. I very much doubt even 1/20th of the population of Australia is even aware of the existence of bittorrent. Still, it does highlight the problem of general incompetence and grade inflation within universities.

By: svunt

svunt — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:50:15 +0000

Pfft, stupid. You may as well ask people at the airport if they intend to travel in the next six months…good thing it’s just an honours thesis, if this was post-grad research, he’d fail it.

By: Player1

Player1 — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 01:42:06 +0000

sample size of under 800. Skewed to people already on the internet. Pointless.

By: Matt Oakes

Matt Oakes — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:20:49 +0000

53% seams a bit much to me. The fact that its on a tv channels web sitewhere only tv enthusiasts will really look is create a bias in the results.

By: Jasper van Weerd

Jasper van Weerd — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:12:14 +0000

Its known and proven that series have higher numbers of viewers since the people who didn’t get a look on the regular day of air at the TV, now can watch it later and can continue watching.

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