Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on March 11, 2009TV-shows are some of the most wanted files on BitTorrent, and according to some, it’s becoming the modern day TiVo. But what are all those people downloading?
Every week we take a look at the most downloaded TV-Shows on BitTorrent. Lost had the honor of being the most pirated show of 2008 and is leading the TV-download chart (again) this week, closely followed by Heroes.
The data for the most recent TV episodes listed below are collected by TorrentFreak from a representative sample of BitTorrent sites and is for informational and educational reference only. The data for the second list based on the total number of downloads (not only recent episodes) of all shows in the past week is provided by ShowInsider.
Top Downloads (Recent Episodes)
| ranking | (last week) | show | est. downloads |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Lost | 1,770,000 |
| 2 | (2) | Heroes | 1,710,000 |
| 3 | (4) | 24 | 6100,000 |
| 4 | (…) | The big Bang Theory | 440,000 |
| 5 | (5) | Battlestar Galactica | 430,000 |
| 6 | (6) | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | 390,000 |
| 7 | (8) | Chuck | 340,000 |
| 8 | (…) | How I Met Your mother | 320,000 |
| 9 | (…) | The Simpsons | 260,000 |
| 10 | (…) | The office | 240,000 |
Top Downloads (All Episodes)
| Ranking | (last week) | TV-show | |
|---|---|---|---|
| showinsider.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Heroes | |
| 2 | (3) | Lost | |
| 3 | (11) | 24 | |
| 4 | (5) | Battlestar Galactica | |
| 5 | (2) | House M.D. | |
| 6 | (6) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | |
| 7 | (4) | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | |
| 8 | (14) | How I Met Your Mother | |
| 9 | (8) | Prison Break | |
| 10 | (9) | Desperate Housewives | |
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But seriously, the only ones worth watching in that first list are HIMYM and 24
Good to see the simpsons back =’]
Where is dollhouse? :D
Supprised to see the Big Bang Theory up so high, its a good show but I wouldn’t have thought it’s got universal appeal.
I dont think LOST will be number 1 next week…cos its not on 2morra :(
I think there is a mistake. Dollhouse should be there. People didn’t stop dowload it after 2 episodes. Last week, Dollhouse has like 350.000.
I think there is a mistake. Dollhouse should be there. People didn’t stop download it after 2 episodes. Last week, Dollhouse has like 350.000.
heroes is sooo bad. i don’t get why i keep watching it.
@Samuel, i forgot about Dollhouse so I didn’t dl the next episode. However, I forgot about it for a reason…
I think there is a mistake. Dollhouse should be there. People didn’t stop download it after 2 episodes. Last week, Dollhouse has like 350.000.
Heroes is great, or at least its better at the moment than in season 2.
As I am in England, we are about 4 episodes behind on our TV – I just download them after they air in America. Why do they do this anyway?
I stopped watching heroes… 2 episodes ago. I just gave up waiting for it to get good again, and so far I’ve been bored the entire season.
I decided to find some new seeries to follow, siince I had time to kill, so I just started going through the EZTV showlist. I’ve d/l The Seeker of The Truth series as well as Merlin up to most current episodes and they aren’t top-10 material, but they’re good. I’ve seen the first 3 ep of Dollhouse, but since Eliza Dushku did the interview linked from Penny-Arcade I’m gonna wait until ep 6 comes out before picking it up again.
The only one TV serie worth watching now are Life On Mars (UK) and nobody seeds any episodes on rsstv.
I like a lot of shows, but in order to do that you have to suspend your thinking. Lets face it there are only so many story Arcitypes, change the; name, location, time. Still alot of it is Good vs Evil some thing helpless needing protection/freeing etc. It’s all in the flavour, otherwise it’s still chicken soup. BTW Life on Mars (UK) is GREAT! the British have some really good shows, check out Greenwing as well. Funny thing is I’ve found all video games are the same, sure physics engine and better graphics, but strip that away and it’s the same game I played time and time again. It’s all been done before.
How I Met your Mother is good show and worth watching.But i am surprised 30 rock is not in the list.
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Also “Breaking bad” should be in the top 10, It’s great.
Best thing since “Dexter”
@ 8
“heroes is sooo bad. i don’t get why i keep watching it.”
Neither do I. This season is so fraking boring.
@ 11
I like Merlin. It’s entertaining, specially with so many medical dramas and crime procedurals these days.
The Seeker of The Truth is watchable, but I spend more time looking for production mistakes than paying attention in the story. In the first episode the wizard says to the seeker that he will have to find the truth without a “manual”. I thought manuals are things from industrial societies. Aren’t they? The worst mistake they made, was about basic science. In the plot, the wizard should break a spell before 3 mysterious stars were hidden behind the Moon. But they show the stars in front of the shadow casted by Earth, Then they slowly move towards the illuminated portion of Moon, disappearing “behind” it. C’mon, the producers, cinematographers, editors and special effects crew are complete idiots or they think we are.
Best shows are BSG and Lost in my opinion.
I didn’t liked “The Big Bang Theory” when it started to air here, because it was too stereotyped for my taste. Maybe because I’m a former scientist :) But I slowly turned off my criticism and now it is one of the shows that I like the most. Very entertaining and funny. Too bad is only 30 minutes per week.
I don’t understand why Dollhouse isn’t there and BSG is.
BSG is getting worse and worse…you can prove anything with new-age, quasi-religious gobbledegook.
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Of course, this is just numbers. I find that, usually, just because a torrent has a lot of downloads, doesn’t mean it’s a better torrent.
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