Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on December 17, 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?
Heroes is leading this week’s chart again, closely followed by Prison Break and Dexter. How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory are two newcomers.
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. A list of the most pirated TV-shows of 2008, including download count will be published later this week.
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 | (1) | Heroes | |
| 2 | (2) | Prison Break | |
| 3 | (3) | Dexter | |
| 4 | (4) | House | |
| 5 | (6) | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | |
| 6 | (5) | Desperate Housewives | |
| 7 | (…) | Californication | |
| 8 | (8) | Top Gear | |
| 9 | (…) | How I Met Your Mother | |
| 10 | (…) | The Big Bang Theory | |
Top Downloads (All Episodes)
| Ranking | (last week) | TV-show | |
|---|---|---|---|
| showinsider.com | |||
| 1 | (3) | Heroes | |
| 2 | (4) | House | |
| 3 | (1) | Prison Break | |
| 4 | (2) | Dexter | |
| 5 | (7) | Lost | |
| 6 | (14) | Gossip Girl | |
| 7 | (8) | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | |
| 8 | (6) | Grey’s Anatomy | |
| 9 | (21) | Naruto Shippuuden | |
| 10 | (5) | Desperate Housewives | |
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18 Responses
first!
I love torrenting movies! If I miss a episode on television, I have the option of downloading it from the internet. Also, there are cases where some of the shows are not recieved in my locality. Torrent sites give us the ability to access content that is not readily available via other media.
FYI … Just read the following article concerning proposed CRTC regulations … might want to take a gander at this:
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/553703#Comments
i know i’m off-topic, sorry about that, but does anyone else have problems accessing demonoid? both tracker and site seem to be offline.
@ 3 – Site is offline for me.
Prison Break has been awesome but the recent huge plot turn was figured out straight away by me. >SUPERSPECIAL<
@3/4 – same.
Also, for this list, i must admit i am SLIGHTLY surprised that Boston Legal S5 e12/13 (double episode), seeing as it was the season finale, and had thousands of downloads within 24 hours.
@3,4&5 i cant access demonoid either tracker status on utorrent says that the host name wasnt found
Demonoid is back check it the site is online now.:D
@4,5,6 – thx for ur feedback.
it seems now to be online again. hooray! for a couple of hours i really thought it could be something much more ominous.
I think some prob with but because i was downloading justice league but that torrent is now no where when i searched.:(
first time we have a anime in the top 10 :)
aargh! I can’t believe heroes made it to the top again!!! WHO in the world is watching that shit?
oh..and btw, house ROOOOCKS!
Naruto would have been there sooner, but it’s hosted on Dattebayo’s own tracker. It’s only showing up now because they’re going to drop the series on Jan. 15, and people are looking for alternatives in places that TorrentFreak actually monitors.
Yey, atlast The Big Bang Theory shows how greate it is : )
Nice to Terminator back in the top 10. There have been some lame episodes this season, but it’s still one of my favorite shows. Summer Glau is hot!
@3 Demonoid is fucking shit!
Heroes is rocking the world. HEROES and PRISON BREAK!!
I’m glad to see Terminator on the list, but saddened more people don’t watch it when it airs on Monday. The ratings are so low I doubt it will survive for a 3rd season.
Hopefully Fox will realize what a popular show it is online and try to leverage that popularity into making more revenue or else it will be dunzo.
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