The most downloaded movies and tv shows of 2007

[wideawakewesley]

Movies
Ranking Movie (downloads on Mininova)
1 Transformers (569.259)
2 Knocked Up (509.314)
3 Shooter (399.960)
4 Pirates Of The.Caribbean At World’s End (379.749)
5 Ratatouille (359.904)
6 300 (358.226)
7 Next (354.044)
8 Hot Fuzz (352.905)
9 The Bourne Ultimatum (336.326)
10 Zodiac (334.699)

TV-Shows
Ranking TV-Shows (downloads most popular episode on Mininova)
1 Heroes (2.439.154)
2 Top Gear (1.217.923)
3 Battlestar Galactica (706.209)
4 Lost (705.724)
5 Prison Break (608.487)
6 Desperate Housewives (457.805)
7 24 (524.303)
8 Family Guy (522.839)
9 Dexter (435.670)
10 Scrubs (427.420)

I'm pleasantly suprised to see Top Gear in 2nd place, now if only we could coax the guys into watching it. Also pleasantly suprised to see Shooter in third place in the movies list, as I really enjoyed it (reminded me of the 80s action films with Arnie and Sly).

Wes

[josborne]

Zodiac? Desperate Housewives? Wow, there's two I was not expecting to see in there....

[darthender]

I wonder if that takes anime into account.

[josborne]

I wonder if that takes anime into account.

I doubt it, because of the way Mininova breaks up their categories. Anime has it's own category, at least on the front page.

[-xcl-]

What no 30 Rock! I fear for society ....

[deegraww]

Other than shooter I got all those movies. After watching them once they were release I bought the DVD's. Great flicks. TV shows: the ones I did DL weren't on the list. One episode of Smallville that the DVR didn't pick up and Jekyl.

[dougleach]

I kind of wish that Lost and Heroes didn't show up on the list. You can watch the episodes for free on the networks websites. If they provide an online solution for those shows, and people still download them, it starts to show that the business model will not work. The networks might start taking the piracy more seriously and might try harder to stop it.

[lindqvist]

I kind of wish that Lost and Heroes didn't show up on the list. You can watch the episodes for free on the networks websites. If they provide an online solution for those shows, and people still download them, it starts to show that the business model will not work. The networks might start taking the piracy more seriously and might try harder to stop it.

I agree in principle, but this list is based on an international viewership, isn't it?

It would have been interesting to see how much of it is US vs non-US viewers, because the US networks do NOT provide an online solution internationally. (Not ad supported, not for rent, not for sale, no nothing.)

While I guess you can get to their ad supported stuff by jumping some hoops (proxies or such), that's still missing the point, it's just another illegal way to get it.


And I guess that's the problem they are facing, piracy has become the norm (partly because of their own inaction for years) and their legal alternative is less compatible, has regional restrictions, worse quality, ads...


I, too, wish for it to work out... I think that if they just gave people what they wanted and charged a reasonable amount for it, no strings, the majority would buy it... But I guess that's a scary concept.

[mr-glass]

Also, the networks don't have a good HD solution yet. Watching streaming video on my HDTV is painfull.