The most popular things on BitTorrent? You might be surprised.
We have conducted a survey of 300,000 individual torrents available on four of the best-known BitTorrent trackers on the Internet. Part of our analysis has been to see what category they belong to. Is porn more popular than software? Is music more numerous than TV?
| Movies | Software | Music | TV | Games | Porn | Books | Pictures | Other |
| 26.26% | 20.00% | 18.54% | 11.06% | 7.23% | 4.61% | 3.83% | 1.18% | 7.29% |
Why so little porn?
While it is true that certain torrent aggregators/trackers specialise in a specific category, sites included in the survey such as Mininova and TPB have a very wide variety of content types. Given the apparent prevalence of porn on the Internet as a whole, I’m surprised that the numbers are so low for it. It is possible that much of this material was mis-categorised, or lumped in with another category such as movies or pictures.
More music than TV?
Another surprise, especially considering the huge amount of talk about rampant sharing of TV shows. Also, I would posit that there may be more TV episodes released per annum than music albums. However, perhaps there is a tendency - as with DVD releases of the same shows - to group individual TV shows into one torrent per season. On the other hand, the same pattern exists with music, where an artist’s entire discography is released in a single torrent.
Comments
Comment from charla.bryce
Date: July 2, 2008, 7:30 am
Not really surprising. You can get pr0n in tons of places for free. So there is less of a need to use torrents to get it. You can’t really surf the web and find tons of movies, music, and games for free.
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