January 2, 2008

Top ten pirated downloads

Despite the moves by the industry to prevent illegal downloads, it would seem that the downloading of pirated films and TV programmes is as popular as ever and figures from the site Mininova has produced the following figures:

Movies

Ranking - Movie (downloads on Mininova)

1 Transformers (569.259)
2 Knocked Up (509.314)
3 Shooter (399.960)
4 Pirates Of The Caribbean At World’s End (379.749)
5 Ratatouille (359.904)
6 300 (358.226)
7 Next (354.044)
8 Hot Fuzz (352.905)
9 The Bourne Ultimatum (336.326)
10 Zodiac (334.699)

TV-Shows

Ranking - TV-Shows (downloads most popular episode on Mininova)

1 Heroes (2.439.154)
2 Top Gear (1.217.923)
3 Battlestar Galactica (706.209)
4 Lost (705.724)
5 Prison Break (608.487)
6 Desperate Housewives (457.805)
7 24 (524.303)
8 Family Guy (522.839)
9 Dexter (435.670)
10 Scrubs (427.420)

As you can see the top ten for both TV and film are huge and represent a great market, if it were legal that is!

Source [Torrent Freak]