Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent (wk31)

Written by Ernesto on August 05, 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?

top gearThe 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 July 27 – August 03


Ranking (last week) TV-show
1 (1) Top Gear
2 (3) Weeds
3 (2) Stargate Atlantis
4 (4) Generation Kill
5 (8) Burn Notice
6 (new) Eureka
7 (new) Flashpoint
8 (new) Mad Men
9 (7) In Plain Sight
10 (new) Mythbusters

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14 Responses

1 Aug 05, 2008 at 10:28 by Tobiaz

Go Weeds!

2 Aug 05, 2008 at 10:41 by Ben

haha you may say that Tobiaz, but top gear is still in the golden position

3 Aug 05, 2008 at 11:54 by CMG

Eugh, this feels like it’s been the same for 5 weeks now, and the only show I watch on there is Top Gear.

4 Aug 05, 2008 at 14:48 by #YLS#

Supprised Top Gear is still up at number one, I would think it’s dropping as its finished for the moment.

Weeds is still really good plus Stargate Atlantis ain’t to bad neither.

5 Aug 05, 2008 at 16:08 by Touchmonkey Zer0

Police That Mustache!!!

6 Aug 05, 2008 at 18:32 by Anonymous

Decided to check out Weeds last week for the first time based on TF comments. It’s brilliant! Well… actually series 1 & 2 were, but 3 so so but becoming irrationally dark, and 4 just terrible…

What the hell happened!? The contrasting difference between s1 and s4 is so profound I can’t help but think something significant has gone down behind the scenes.

I got to about s4e4 but can’t watch it anymore. I’m gutted really as it was so good earlier on. :(

7 Aug 05, 2008 at 18:49 by yeap

@ 6, all these tv shows eventualy do that, they start out very intriguing, then get into a whole bunch of gayness.

For example, LOST. Starts out awesome, your like omg crazy, and then it gets gay… hookey pookey gay.

8 Aug 05, 2008 at 19:50 by Ibod Catooga

Dammit dammit son-of-a-bitch!

Son-of-a-bitch!

Son-of-a-bitch!

9 Aug 05, 2008 at 23:08 by Viper007Bond

Sadly Top Gear’s last episode for a while was on the 27th, so it’s gonna drop off the list. :(

10 Aug 06, 2008 at 02:11 by snoopy

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11 Aug 06, 2008 at 21:14 by me

lol… Mythbusters!???

12 Aug 07, 2008 at 18:28 by Londunn

We need a most popular cd catagory too. These lists are cool.

13 Aug 07, 2008 at 19:19 by pirated

Go mythbusters!

14 Aug 07, 2008 at 20:46 by X

HBO are tracking Gen Kill and contacting ISP’s BTW

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