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Peter, the Internet is for mortgage payments and porn ONLY! The stat shouldn’t be taken as gospel, however, as the site merely lists the number of downloads for a show’s most popular episode and not its entire season run (not to mention that it’s tough to swallow empirical data from a site with “freak” in its name). Still, TorrentFreak claims that the most-pirated episode of Heroes (the particulars of the episode were not disclosed) was “stolen” approximately 6,580,000 times. That’s over half a million more than the show’s average TV audience. And while online piracy is thought to be the realm of the male basement nerd, both Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives made the top ten list. Either female basement nerds are getting into the act too, or the guys out there are getting soft. That’s what happens when you dudes gender-swap and level a female night elf to 70 in World of Warcraft. Overall, the takeaway from these numbers isn’t that there are millions of horrible people out there stealing TV (a large chunk of the downloads is thought to be from foreign markets that can’t get the shows legally), it’s this: Television viewing habits are changing. Networks shouldn’t be looking for ways to stop illegal downloading, but rather to find a way to make it work to their advantage. The list: Source:Â TV.com |
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Omg. I wrote this and it got deleted ’cause I didn’t type my e-mail. So, here we go again..
I’m one of those people who can’t watch the series [even though I do pay for cable TV], and I believe that many of those 6500000 [wow.] can’t, or want to watch it again before the DVD comes out.
Also, as Amanda Palmer said – I have nothing against downloading art for free in this era of the internet, but at the same time I am for contributing in one way or another – buy t-shirts, CDs/DVDs, merch of any kind, and make further making of the art possible.
[And not only art - I click on google ads on the sites I like [like this one], even though I don’t have a slightest interest in it (: ]
Hey Mila, don’t worry! There are a lot of downloaders here including me! We don’t get the latest Heroes stuff in The Netherlands. I think this article is a compliment for the show! people in foreign countries want to watch the show no matter what!
I’m not worried hehe I can’t watch it in Serbia either [what a surprise, huh] and I don’t feel guilty for downloading it. If one of the TV stations I have get their hands on the series, I’ll watch it again. That’s also a way of contributing.
And yes, I also think the article is flattery. I had no idea Heroes are that popular lol