Torrent Freak revealed a list of 2014’s most downloaded television shows according to download histories of BitTorrent. If you’re not familiar with the practice of torrenting, you might want to view the list of different ways to download the files you want without having to purchase them officially. Most people don’t know that torrenting isn’t always illegal and lets you watch your favourite film for free, it can be extremely useful for accessing various data and files. To find out more about torrents, follow that link. However, the reason most people only know about the illegal torrenting is because it’s such a massive industry. Millions of people use to to save themselves some money. Unsurprisingly, Game of Thrones (a show that also broke the record for most peers sharing one file simnutaioniously, at 250,000+ users) and The Walking Dead topple the list. Variety also recently revealed a similar list, showing off the most downloaded films of the year, according to research firm Excipio. Again, unsurprising results as Frozen and The Wolf of Wallstreet are champ among this year’s top films. Illegal torrent and streaming sites are becoming censored and blocked by various ISP’s in different countries, to get around this many people are using proxy sites like AvoidCensorship.org to gain access to torrent sites so they can still enjoy their favourite TV shows and movies.
Peep the two lists below:
Most pirated movies of 2014:
- The Wolf of Wall Street: 30.035 million
- Frozen: 29.919 million
- RoboCop (including 1987 and 2014 versions): 29.879 million
- Gravity: 29.357 million
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: 27.627 million
- Thor: The Dark World: 25.749 million
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier: 25.628 million
- The Legend of Hercules: 25.137 million
- X-Men: Days of Future Past: 24.380 million
- 12 Years a Slave: 23.653 million
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: 23.543 million
- American Hustle: 23.143 million
- 300: Rise of an Empire: 23.096 million
- Transformers: Age of Extinction: 21.65 million
- Godzilla: 20.956 million
- Noah: 20.334 million
- Divergent: 20.312 million
- Edge of Tomorrow: 20.299 million
- Captain Phillips: 19.817 million
- Lone Survivor: 19.130 million
Most pirated television of 2014:
- Game of Thrones: 8.1 million
- The Walking Dead: 4.8 million
- The Big Bang Theory: 3.9 million
- How I Met Your Mother: 3.5 million
- Gotham: 3.2 million
- Arrow: 2.9 million
- Grey’s Anatomy: 2.8 million
- Vikings: 2.7 million
- Suits: 2.5 million
- South Park: 2.4 million
(via Polygon)