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The Most Popular Illegal Downloads

The Most Popular Illegal Downloads

So what are the most popular TV shows and movies among those who download illegally? It might not be a question many of us consider, but research company Big Champagne has. It checked the torrents – the places where people download illegally – to find out.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Heroes is the winner, with around 55 million people downloading it this year, followed by Lost, with 51 million illegal downloads. They also discovered some interesting statistics – that there’s been an increase in the illegal download of films and TV shows compared to music, and that visits to torrent sites have almost doubled in the last 12 months, the BBC reports.

Illegal Downloads Won’t Go Away

Illegal Downloads Won

A new British study conducted by music rights groups MCPS-PRS Alliance and online media measurement company Big Champagne has shown that illegal downloading is here to stay, and that the music industry has to accept the fact and learn to work with it.

The study was conducted around the online release of the last Radiohead album, In Rainbows, where those downloading it could pay what they wished for the music. The study found that a majority of users still pirated the music, preferring to download it from illegal sites and torrents rather than from the official site.

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