Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
TV 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?
Desperate Housewives is leading this week’s chart, followed by Gossip Girl and Scrubs. 24 aired on January 11th, and will appear in next weeks list.
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 was published two weeks ago.
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 | (…) | Desperate Housewives | |
| 2 | (…) | Gossip Girl | |
| 3 | (…) | Scrubs | |
| 4 | (…) | One Tree Hill | |
| 5 | (…) | Grey’s Anatomy | |
| 6 | (2) | Stargate Atlantis | |
| 7 | (6) | Knight Rider | |
| 8 | (3) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | |
| 9 | (…) | 90210 | |
| 10 | (…) | The Mentalist | |
Top Downloads (All Episodes)
| Ranking | (last week) | TV-show | |
|---|---|---|---|
| showinsider.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Heroes | |
| 2 | (2) | Prison Break | |
| 3 | (4) | Dexter | |
| 4 | (6) | Californication | |
| 5 | (9) | Gossip Girl | |
| 6 | (3) | House M.D. | |
| 7 | (7) | Stargate Atlantis | |
| 8 | (5) | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | |
| 9 | (11) | Grey’s Anatomy | |
| 10 | (10) | Desperate Housewives | |
