- We temporarily discontinued p2pnet's regular, and unique, Movies File Share Top Ten so we could add BitTorrent statistics to the feature.
We also thought it'd be a good time to update Big Champagne's explanation of how it arrives at the numbers and accordingly, "Here's how we arrive at the BT stats,” says Adam Toll.
“We monitor BT sites (a constantly evolving set) and observe, in addition to all the other available information, the number of users leeching(downloading) each title at any given time. Using the information collected and processed continually, we then calculate the average number of simultaneous leechers for each period. This is a little different from the P2P measure, as explained below.
“While the P2P measure published on p2pnet.net shows the average simultaneous users who are sharing the movie on P2P networks, the BT measure represents the relatively smaller number of people who are, on average, actively downloading the movie (in other words, in the process of downloading the movie) at any given time. This is a very different statistic. These two measures are a consequence of the differences in the ways that P2P and BT work.”
With all the dross being pumped out by research and marketing firms on what's supposedly happening with p2p, it's good to have at least one firm around which shows the picture as it really is as opposed to the way the many supposedly 'independent' reports commissioned by the entertainment and software cartels present it.
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloaders ('leechers') BitTorrent, World-wide Current simultaneous leechers as of July 22, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 49,397 02>>> Superman Returns 47,792 03>>> Nacho Libre 47,298 04>>> Click 45,102 05>>> Cars 43,28906>>> X-Men: The Last Stand 41,782 07>>> The Devil Wears Prada 41,951 08>>> Eight Below 39,149 09>>> The Da Vinci Code 39,146 10>>> The Break-Up 39,291
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads p2p, World-wide Week ending July 22, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 1,485,73402>>> Superman Returns 1,482,26603>>> Cars 1,437,00404>>> Nacho Libre 1,423,92105>>> Click 1,416,15106>>> The Devil Wears Prada 1,414,79007>>> The Break-Up 1,403,26608>>> The Da Vinci Code 1,367,48609>>> The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 1,362,24010>>> X-Men: The Last Stand 1,356,159
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads p2p, USA Week ending July 22, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 887,39202>>> Superman Returns 867,38503>>> Nacho Libre 862,62204>>> Cars 858,11105>>> Click 845,51606>>> The Break-Up 844,40907>>> The Devil Wears Prada 832,80408>>> The Da Vinci Code 828,02409>>> The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 825,44110>>> Failure To Launch 791,581BitTorrent, World-wide Week ending July 22, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 49,397 02>>> Superman Returns 47,792 03>>> Nacho Libre 47,298 04>>> Click 45,102 05>>> Cars 43,28906>>> X-Men: The Last Stand 41,782 07>>> The Devil Wears Prada 41,951 08>>> Eight Below 39,149 09>>> The Da Vinci Code 39,146 10>>> The Break-Up 39,291
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads p2p, World-wide Week ending July 22, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 1,485,73402>>> Superman Returns 1,482,26603>>> Cars 1,437,00404>>> Nacho Libre 1,423,92105>>> Click 1,416,15106>>> The Devil Wears Prada 1,414,79007>>> The Break-Up 1,403,26608>>> The Da Vinci Code 1,367,48609>>> The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 1,362,24010>>> X-Men: The Last Stand 1,356,159
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads p2p, USA Week ending July 22, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 887,39202>>> Superman Returns 867,38503>>> Nacho Libre 862,62204>>> Cars 858,11105>>> Click 845,51606>>> The Break-Up 844,40907>>> The Devil Wears Prada 832,80408>>> The Da Vinci Code 828,02409>>> The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift 825,44110>>> Failure To Launch 791,581
