Top 10 Most Pirated TV Shows on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on March 24, 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 is leading the chart this week, followed at a distance by Desperate Housewives and the final episode of Battlestar Galactica.
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 | (…) | Lost | 1,570,000 |
| 2 | (4) | Desperate Housewives | 680,000 |
| 3 | (6) | Battlestar Galactica | 630,000 |
| 4 | (3) | 24 | 610,000 |
| 5 | (2) | House M.D. | 580,000 |
| 6 | (…) | Family Guy | 420,000 |
| 7 | (5) | Smallville | 410,000 |
| 8 | (7) | The Big Bang Theory | 400,000 |
| 9 | (10) | How I Met Your mother | 370,000 |
| 10 | (…) | South Park | 360,000 |
Top Downloads (All Episodes)
| Ranking | (last week) | TV-show | |
|---|---|---|---|
| showinsider.com | |||
| 1 | (1) | Lost | |
| 2 | (3) | Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles | |
| 3 | (5) | House M.D. | |
| 4 | (2) | Heroes | |
| 5 | (4) | Battlestar Galactica | |
| 6 | (8) | 24 | |
| 7 | (20) | Smallville | |
| 8 | (11) | How I Met Your Mother | |
| 9 | (30) | The Big Bang Theory | |
| 10 | (9) | Grey’s Anatomy | |
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I thought that there was no Lost episode last week ….
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glad to see Galactica is up there. Last episode was awesome
WOOT SOUTH PARK IS FTW
Lost rocks my socks and i’m it rocks yours too.
yaeh BSG is third :p.
Series finale of Battlestar Galactica was a horribly done Deus Ex Machina. I didn’t like it at all.
@jupp: There was no Heroes episode last week. There was a Lost episode.
Lol lost is dumb. Sudenly their lost and not lost. And then back again. NExt the story will be about one of the charachters opening up a shop outside the island.
wow… imagine the Nielsen ratings being all messed because of these dls…lol for example shows like the WWE ratings are dropping im betting because there is more dling of their weekly shows and not watching them on tv… and shows like the WWE wont have a good rating in your rating chart because they are mostly dled from other private sites members only not an open site likes TPB
How is this pirating? I can watch this sh*t for free (more or less) on tv! So, it’s ‘pirating’ to download a a show that someone was nice enough to copy and upload?! Really? How the f*ck is that?!
3 (6) Battlestar Galactica 630,000???
I thought this was absolute crap…
Hey co, TV shows are released on DVD after airing, how the f*ck is that?!
If in the UK, do you pay a TV license? I think one does if one owns a TV, hmmm?
DUMB.
Good to see Family Guy back, it deserves it’s place after the last episode, it was goddamn hilarious!
South Park in the top 10 (Y)
interesting: South Park is in the top ten despite you can watch all the episodes on southparkstudios.com
I can’t believe Scrubs isnt here !!!!
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