Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk24)

Written by Ernesto on June 18, 2008 

TV shows are by far the most wanted files via BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s fast becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading? Let’s find out, and take a look at this weeks “Most pirated TV-episodes” chart.

battlestarThe data is collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only.

At the end of the year we will publish a list of most downloaded TV-shows for the entire year, like we did last December.

TV-shows such as “Lost” and “Heroes” can get up to 10 million downloads per episode, in only a week.

Top Downloads June 08 - June 15

Ranking (last week) TV-show
1 (1) Battlestar Galactica
2 (2) The Daily Show
3 (3) The Colbert Report
4 (4) Doctor Who
5 (new) Fringe
6 (10) In Plain Sight
7 (new) Hells Kitchen
8 (6) Fear Itself
9 (8) Greek
10 (new) Swingtown

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22 Responses

1 Jun 18, 2008 at 15:01 by Anonymous

Top Gear is back on Sunday, so look for it to top the chart for the next month and a half.

2 Jun 18, 2008 at 15:14 by Ernesto

We’ll see ;)

3 Jun 18, 2008 at 15:17 by InviteMan

edit: no spam please

4 Jun 18, 2008 at 16:13 by ron burgandy

wow- I never would’ve thought I’d see Hell’s Kitchen in this list…

5 Jun 18, 2008 at 16:33 by Mixmax

Battlestar Galactica is now in break so it will not be there for a while…

6 Jun 18, 2008 at 17:03 by John Walton

What? No Miami Vice? Bummer.

http://www.FireMe.to/udi

7 Jun 18, 2008 at 17:37 by zomg

Fringe is a good series - i watched the pilot ep and really liked it.

8 Jun 18, 2008 at 18:21 by Zack

I figured weeds would make it on here, new season started out amazing

9 Jun 18, 2008 at 23:26 by Norway FTW!

Can’t wait until My Name is Earl is back again!

10 Jun 19, 2008 at 01:25 by Hermano

Weeds wasn’t released till the 16th, expect it on next weeks list.

11 Jun 19, 2008 at 01:31 by Roberto

Stewart and Colbert will move down the list once people realize that you can watch the whole thing on Hulu.

12 Jun 19, 2008 at 03:46 by Tim

People, Colbert and Daily Show can be watched legally, in full on ComedyCentral.com … why are you still downloading it? ComedyCentral and their staff deserve the advertising $$$ for providing such great content.

Come on you guys.

13 Jun 19, 2008 at 05:03 by Anonymous

Do you have any demographic details for each show? I’d be interested to know how many people download Doctor Who outside of the UK.

14 Jun 19, 2008 at 06:39 by Anonymous

i really enjoy house MD anyone else the same?

15 Jun 19, 2008 at 08:11 by Aelth

I don’t recognize 5-10…

16 Jun 19, 2008 at 15:49 by Ibod Catooga

ANAL RAPE

17 Jun 20, 2008 at 03:20 by Mac2

ComedyCentral and Hulu only work within the United States. So the rest of the world needs to download them and as it turns out there are a lot of people on the planet who don’t live in America.

18 Jun 20, 2008 at 04:14 by H_Overman

I’m surprised. Steward and Colbert are almost daily shows, where as BSG and Dr Who are weekly.
I’d be willing to bet DS and CR drive more traffic due to sheer volume of programming.
Are these results tabulated to single episodes?

19 Jun 21, 2008 at 01:33 by Anonymous

Hulu is US only but I think ComedyCentral works in the UK dunno about other countries?

20 Jun 21, 2008 at 03:25 by Anonymous

Fringe is pretty cool, and I never would have known it leaked if not for this post.

21 Jun 21, 2008 at 07:35 by yellapieman

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22 Jun 21, 2008 at 11:28 by Anonymous

Lost Heroes yea

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