Top Gear the 2nd most downloaded Tv show of 2007!

jmsprovan · January 2nd, 2008, 12:05 PM

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From Torrentfreak

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)

Pretty funky i must say.

ViperVX · January 2nd, 2008, 12:09 PM

that's nice. Competeng directly with hugely popular american shows

Viper007Bond · January 2nd, 2008, 01:22 PM

Haha, guess who's torrent that is for #2? images/smilies/tongue.gif

http://www.mininova.org/tor/607357

I doubt it was 1.2 million though. I suspect someone's feed reader was going crazy or something. About a 1/2 million is more reasonable.

Frederic · January 2nd, 2008, 02:31 PM

How in the name of all that's holy do they measure (illegal) downloads??

Xeon SX · January 2nd, 2008, 03:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Frederic

How in the name of all that's holy do they measure (illegal) downloads??

they see how many .torrent files were downloaded

JosefCarlin · January 2nd, 2008, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Xeon SX

they see how many .torrent files were downloaded

Does anyone know if this includes "private" trackers and torrents?

thearrow · January 2nd, 2008, 06:58 PM

The 1.2 mil is simply the number of times the torrent was downloaded from the mininova site alone, not counting other public trackers or private ones.

TorrentFreak says these numbers are "considered to be a representative sample."

qczhao · January 2nd, 2008, 06:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

Haha, guess who's torrent that is for #2? images/smilies/tongue.gif

http://www.mininova.org/tor/607357

I doubt it was 1.2 million though. I suspect someone's feed reader was going crazy or something. About a 1/2 million is more reasonable.

surely there are quite a few different torrents for the same episode of top gear, in which case they might all be counted - also dont forget people downloadng old episodes too as top gear gathers a larger and larger audience

thearrow · January 2nd, 2008, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by qczhao

surely there are quite a few different torrents for the same episode of top gear, in which case they might all be counted - also dont forget people downloadng old episodes too as top gear gathers a larger and larger audience

The 1.2 mil was the count of that exact torrent from mininova. No other episodes or versions of the same episode were taken into account. Check the mininova page for that torrent and you see this:

Downloads: 1,218,055

Pretty impressive for one episode. But, like Viper said, slightly unlikely.....

thedguy · January 2nd, 2008, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by JosefCarlin

Does anyone know if this includes "private" trackers and torrents?

No.

Viper007Bond · January 2nd, 2008, 10:57 PM

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Originally Posted by thearrow

Pretty impressive for one episode. But, like Viper said, slightly unlikely.....

Well, I wouldn't be hugely skeptical.

TG 10x08 has 320k downloads and it's only a month old: http://www.mininova.org/tor/1025236

Now imagine if it's older (more downloads) + has hilarious content like the limos.

POWERRR!! · January 2nd, 2008, 11:30 PM

Pretty safe to assume that this forum largely responsible! images/smilies/smile.gif

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