BitTorrent’s Top 10 TV shows (not that you would do that)

June 06th, 2008 | Category: TV News

Filed under: OpEd, Battlestar Galactica, Lost, The Daily Show, Ratings

Now I know that none of our readers would do anything like that, but apparently there are society out there who just love to download and watch television via BitTorrent. In fact, 50% of BitTorrent activity is apparently the downloading of television shows, with literally millions of downloads for each episode of those top shows. The folks by at TorrentFreak compiled a list of the Top 10 BitTorrented television shows for the week of May 25 - June 1.

I’m not surprised at all to see shows like The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Lost and Battlestar Galactica

among the top of these rankings. Just think of the kind of audience these types of shows are likely to draw. It’s unlucky that that list couldn’t have been compiled a few weeks ago when most of the broadcast networks were still streaming new episodes. So You Think You Can Dance ranked pretty well, but I wonder whether American Idol would have been tops here as well. Further into the list were some even more interesting choices.

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