- We recently discontinued p2pnet's regular, and unique, Movies File Share Top Ten so we could add BitTorrent statistics to the feature. However, now it's back and with it, an update to 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 29, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (unchanged)49,594 02>>> Superman Returns (unchanged) 48,032 03>>> Nacho Libre + 447,431 04>>> The Devil Wears Prada + 745,267 05>>> Click - 443,28906>>> Cars - 5 42,08107>>> Eight Below + 8 41,890 08>>> The Break-Up + 10 39,639 09>>> X-Men: The Last Stand - 6 39,323 10>>> Failure To Launch (new) 39,309
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads p2p, World-wide Week ending July 29, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (unchanged) 1,499,63202>>> Superman Returns (unchanged) 1,493,40803>>> Nacho Libre (unchanged) 1,451,12704>>> The Break-Up + 10 1,435,010 05>>> The Devil Wears Prada + 7 1,430,83906>>> Click - 4 1,425,40107>>> Cars - 5 1,419,57008>>> The Da Vinci Code + 91,382,85809>>> Eight Below (unchanged) 1,377,07110>>> Failure To Launch (new) 1,370,235
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads p2p, USA Week ending July 29, 2006
RankingMovieNumber of Downloads 01>>> Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (unchanged) 895,38202>>> Superman Returns (unchanged) 879,08003>>> Nacho Libre (unchanged) 874,12404>>> The Devil Wears Prada + 7 863,82905>>> The Break-Up + 6 856,07006>>> Click - 5 853,53407>>> Cars - 4 839,28508>>> Failure To Launch (new) 834,67909>>> Little Man (new) 837,04910>>> The Da Vinci Code - 8 799,356
