Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on November 11, 2008TV shows are by far the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
Prison Break is leading the chart with close to two million downloads for the latest episode only.
The data for the most recent TV episodes are collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only.
Thanks to ShowInsider we now also include a list based on the total number of downloads (not only recent episodes) of all shows in the past week.
Top Downloads (Recent Episodes)
| Ranking | (last week) | TV-show | |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (…) | Prison Break | |
| 2 | (2) | Dexter | |
| 3 | (5) | Grey’s Anatomy | |
| 4 | (6) | Smallville | |
| 5 | (8) | South Park | |
| 6 | (4) | Desperate Housewives | |
| 7 | (7) | Entourage | |
| 8 | (…) | Stargate Atlantis | |
| 9 | (10) | Supernatural | |
| 10 | (…) | Top Gear | |
Top Downloads (All Episodes)
| Ranking | (last week) | TV-show | |
|---|---|---|---|
| showinsider.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Heroes | |
| 2 | (2) | Prison Break | |
| 3 | (3) | Dexter | |
| 4 | (4) | House | |
| 5 | (6) | Desperate Housewives | |
| 6 | (5) | Smallville | |
| 7 | (7) | Grey’s Anatomy | |
| 8 | (10) | Entourage | |
| 9 | (9) | Gossip Girl | |
| 10 | (12) | Californication | |
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Heroes at top i see,
Prison Break? Man some of you people kill me!
Always surprised there is no office
Last night’s episode of Terminator was great. Hopefully it will be on next week’s list.
I always say it but Dexter and Californication are the top shows on this list, along with Entourage.
Hero’s has sucked season 1 ended.
Prison Break bores me, if heroes was on last week it would have been top of the list as usual.
Top Gear, Top Gear!!
that image you use for prison break is a joke photoshoped one I think. That guy ain’t in the show afaik
Dexter … still maintaining it’s spot on the list!
Mr. Burns begins interlaces his fingers and says,”EXCELLLLLENT.”
Where the hell is family guy???????
Yeah, Heroes Season 3 has really gone downhill – S1 & 2 were really compelling plots and direction but no more.
Entourage is brilliant, one of my favourite shows along with Dexter.
Stewie: It wasn’t even about the eggs, really. Frankly, I like the yolks. I have no problem. There’s always been a lot of tension between Lois and me. And it’s not so much that I want to kill her, it’s just, I want her not to be alive anymore. I sometimes wonder if all women are this difficult. And then I think to myself, ‘My God wouldn’t it be marvelous if i turned out to be a homosexual?’
Yep … Seth MacFarlane outed him. B a a a a s t a r d
None of these shows are community driven projects that use single, individual funds to realise their artistic vision in our culture. Therefore they all suck – they bring nothing of the artists feelings, values and life perception to the works. People and culture NEED a vision to follow, to be enriched with thought provoking talent, ideas and to be inspired to be culturally pluralistic. These shows SHOULD NOT be entertaining – people need to contemplate what they watch and be drawn into a community driven achitype and not let themselves enjoy this nazi, capitalistic, fascist entertainment of the masses.
The Pirate Bay sucks, it’s a slow piece of poop. It makes money for its creators which should be feeding peasants who cant find work. Again, it just sucks as a concept, a website and its really slow.
Roze
@4
Yes indeed! Looking forward to more and yes, it should be on this list next week.
-snerk- That guy in the Prison Break photoshop is famous for breaking out of a Singapore prison (he’s still out there). I’m kinda surprised you guys used it.
Under the headline “Bogans Wanted For New TV Show” a classified ad in newspapers … Fenech, the writer and director behind SBS TV shows Fat Pizza and the
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come on everyone! lets get top gear higher! its easiest the best show out there
rose,
stay off the drugs man
Sorry im a bit of a crack addict.. I start rambling on about my nonsense..
please ignore what i said before.
Roze
Thats good.
Mary
http://5chan.ru/b/
Christ… ernesto, Enigmax – please, please do something about the trolling and impersonation going on.
Registration, pay membership, whatever … even I refuse to believe Roze is THAT cracked up in the head :(
Surprised The Shield isnt up there best fuckin cop show thats been on TV (and torrents)
@21
Of course I’m not. My views may seem stupid to many people (as that may very well include you), as they are quite contrarian, but I never intentionally try to look stupid, as many posts under the name “Roze” are quite obviously intending to look stupid. My opinion is that registrations will vastly cut down on the number of comments, so I don’t think it is a good idea. However, I think it might be good, if possible, to display some secret hash of the IP address. I think it might also be good to fill out some string somewhere, to undergo a secret hash, to be displayed publicly somewhere, in case one is the same person using internet connection from more than one IP address.
Roze
http://www.10ch.org/
james bond will be #1 soon!
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Hulu.com has all of the new prison break episodes… I am guessing people are downloading the old seasons??
Prison Break should have been stopped in Season-3 only when they killed Sara but due to producer and channel’s greed they have come out with a season-4 which is practically similar to season-1 & 3 so prison break has really gone down the drain in Season-4.
I still think the downloads on http://www.oliv3r.net are much better than using P2P networks. They use Rapidshare, megaupload and load of other online hosting sites to download from and its much quicker.
Aaargh!!
Sons of Anarchy & True Blood!
Ok, just had to post my weekly annoyance of the lack of mention of these shows. :)
I use Bittorrent to frequently download tv shows because I can never make it to watch the episode on tv
Every show i watch is on that list somewhere
House/hereos/Prison Break/Californication/Entourage/Dexter
Would you believe, I’m downloading The X-Files. And I’m not the only one, since there are a lot of peers!
Is the photoshopped pic deliberate?
the shows are free over the air broadcast
so does sharing them over the internet really mean they are being pirated?
hmm
Wow
I just want to say that ROZE is a total douche.
where’s the office?
According to a poll by http://mp4freeload.commovie downloads are more popular then tv shows, although I defo prefer tv shows!! Cant wait for lost to return!!x
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