![]() ![]() ![]() Of course, they’re also stealing content, but as TorrentFreak points out constantly, “The entertainment industry should learn how to embrace technology and compete with piracy, instead of fighting its customers. Instead of joining the whining ranks of the “I’m waiting for the DVD! Don’t tell me anything! La-la-la-la!” crowd who’ll maybe see this stuff next year (if we’re lucky), downloaders are allowing the pop-cultural dialogue to continue unabated. ![]() And awesome, unaffordable rides, but mostly immediacy. Oh, and because It’s! Awesome! The fact that no one, especially not Torrent pirates who won’t even spring for cable, can afford any of those cars is beside the point: It’s about immediacy. 1 slot for weeks likely because it was uploads of the original BBC first run, not the chopped-up BBC America version that ran in months-delayed repeats. Top Gear, the only nonscripted nondrama of the list, held the No. I don’t see a Big Brother or a Greatest American Dog (arguably the same CBS reality series) in any of TorrentFreak’s weekly Top 10 lists of the past summer. They may not have much regard for things like “copyright law” and “bandwidth,” but these downloaders are obviously a far more discerning and intelligent lot than traditional TV viewers. Wrong-o! They’re the most-downloaded TV shows-actually, “files”-from various BitTorrent Internet sites around the world, as compiled by. Must be some esoteric, oddly metered rung of the Nielsen ratings, the 14 of you who care about such matters are probably thinking. Not exactly a Season Pass roster for geezers and pinheads (with the possible exception of Stargate Atlantis, anyway). The Beijing Summer Olympic Games and the Democratic National Convention made dents last month, but they were on every damn channel all the damn time-how could they damn not?īut elsewhere, the summer TV hot list looked very different: Showtime’s Weeds, BBC’s Top Gear, Sci-Fi’s Stargate Atlantis, AMC’s Mad Men and USA’s Burn Notice were all fixtures in the Top 10. The biggest TV hits of the summer (in relative terms June-August viewership is always low, even if you can’t afford gas to get away from the tube) were crap, shows your grandparents and slower officemates just looove: America’s Got Talent, So You Think You Can Dance? and Wipeout on the reality side Criminal Minds, 60 Minutes and Two & a Half Menreruns on the scripted tip. ![]()
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