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Subject: Top 10 Pirated TV Shows of 2012 Sat 29 Dec 2012, 4:16 am
With 80 percent of the downloads from overseas, the HBO fantasy hit leads a Top 10 list that also includes "Dexter," "The Big Bang Theory" and "Revolution."
What's the digital version of doubloons, the favorite treasure of pirates? Game of Thrones is the answer for 21st century digital pirates.
The hit HBO drama topped blog TorrentFreak's study of the most pirated shows of 2012, which skewed heavily toward pay cable and genre shows.
TorrentFreak reports that the top Game of Thrones episode was illegally downloaded 4.28 million times in 2012, though more than 90 percent of the downloads occur in the first week of a show's first-run airing.
For comparison, the June 3 season two finale drew 4.2 million viewers in the U.S. during its first-run airing on HBO, a ratings record for the show.
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The second-most pirated show was Showtime's Dexter with 3.85 million first-week downloads, topping its legal U.S. audience of 2.75 million.
The top broadcast network show on the list is CBS' comedy The Big Bang Theory with 3.2 million illegal downloads. CBS also had the second-most pirated network show with No. 4's How I Met Your Mother (2.96 million downloads).
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Breaking Bad, with 2.58 million downloads (vs. 2.98 million U.S. viewers) was the most pirated basic cable show. Rounding out the top 10 are The Walking Dead (AMC), Homeland (Showtime), House (Fox), Fringe (Fox) and Revolution (NBC).
The Peacock network's J.J. Abrams show about a near-future world without power was the only freshman show to crack the list.
TorrentFreak estimates that more than 80 percent of the illegal TV downloads occur outside the United States. For example, the site looked closely at the downloads for Game of Thrones' season-two finale. More than 10 percent of the total pirated downloads for the finale were from Australia, where the show airs on a one-week delay.
The second-most downloads were in the U.S., but that only accounted for 9.7 percent of the total.
The other three countries in the top five -- Canada (7.7 percent), U.K. (7.6 percent) and the Netherlands (4.4 percent) -- accounted for nearly a fifth of the total.
The next four spots all are occupied by European countries: Norway, Spain, Poland and Greece. In all, Europe's top pirates accounted for a quarter of the Game of Thrones piracy.
The Philippines, at No. 10, was the only non-Western country to crack the list.
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Subject: Re: Top 10 Pirated TV Shows of 2012 Sat 29 Dec 2012, 4:59 am
I don't pirate shit either..
I am surprised this movie was # 1.
Here is an article about why Project X may have been # 1:
And the most sought after film on Earth is...Project X?
On Thursday, Torrent Freak released lists of 2012's most pirated films and television shows. Game of Thrones topped the list of illegally downloaded television shows, with more than 3 million downloads per episode. It's not hard to understand its appeal to the mostly young, mostly male pirate downloaders of the world: It's a critically acclaimed HBO production that features at least several pairs of exposed breasts per episode, so...
But the most illegally downloaded film of the year is a little more surprising — according to Torrent Freak, more people illegally downloaded the low-budget, no-name, high school party flick Project X than any other film this year. Worldwide, Project X made $100.9 million in 2012 — a number that puts it solidly in the bottom of the middle ranks as the 57th highest grossing film of the year; sandwiched between the horror exploitation flic The Devil Inside and the quirky animated ParaNorman.
Why was that relatively unknown film downloaded more times than, say, BuzzFeed's best movie of the year, The Dark Knight Rises? Or the highest grossing film of the year, The Avengers?
We have a theory: Aussies.
A country-by-country breakdown reveals that Australians are responsible for the largest share of illegal Game of Thrones downloads — the island continent accounts for a full 10.1% of those downloads worldwide.
"Ernesto," a blogger for Torrent Freak, suggests the reason Australians downloaded Game of Thrones more than people from any other country is because Australian fans are forced to wait an entire week after an episode has aired in America to see it in their country.
That makes sense for television shows — but what about films?
Turns out, the most pirated television show is mostly downloaded in Australia because Australians are represented far above their population in the pirating world.
They do more pirating per capita than any other country around the globe, according to a survey released earlier this year by the data and analytics company Musicmetric.
"Australia, with just over 19 million downloads, placed sixth in the top 10 for music downloads in the past year," the Sydney Morning Herald explained when the survey was released in September. That might not seem like a lot, but "with a population of 23 million for those 19 million downloads [Australia] was comfortably the most frequent user of unofficial or illegal sites."
We asked Torrent Freak's Ernesto if he could give us a country-by-country breakdown of the most pirated films. Sadly, he couldn't.
"Unfortunately not," Ernesto said via email. "This would require far more extensive logging and we don't have the resources to do so."
Was there any chance that he could tell us how many of this year's Project X downloads came from Down Under?
"The only thing I can say is that 7 percent of the people who are currently downloading the film are from Australia," Ernesto said.
Seven percent? Crikey!
Most of the films on this year's list are top-grossing, big-budget studio films. All of them, in fact, except number one.
So, why do Australians care so much about Project X? The film, which takes place in suburban Pasadena, is the familiar tale of a trio of high school boys who, in their quest for popularity, throw a house party that quickly spirals out of their control.
The film might hold particular appeal to Aussies because it is based on real events that took place in Melbourne, Australia — more specifically, a party thrown by native son Corey Worthington.
Worthington gained infamy in 2008 after a small get-together with some friends turned into a rager with more than 500 attendees. The revelers trashed his neighborhood, but that wasn't what made the party go down in history — the thing that made the party, and Worthington, famous was his interview with a reproachful news anchor who tried, unsuccessfully, to get Worthington to remove his sunglasses.
Four years later, Worthington is still riding the wave of fame generated by the party, the interview, and the film — as evidenced by his Twitter feed, chock-full of #ProjectX hashtags.
