With the advent of Internet Technology, piracy has transformed itself into a new form which makes it even harder to deal and to eliminate.
Probably the easiest thing to pirate is video contents, making TV shows and movies the two most blatantly copied materials, resulting to billions of dollars of loss revenues by producers each year.
According to the latest survey, people are downloading TV shows from illegitimate distributors which can be easily found in the Internet. Just by simply scouring the computer, anyone can easily access video contents he/she wish to watch.
BitTorrent, a peer-to-peer sharing protocol, is a technology which has aggravated the alarming situation of Internet-based piracy. With this method, users who download content will automatically upload this to other users until the data has spread in an intricate web where it will be able to reach more people. And unlike in centralized procedure where only one server will relay data, BitTorrent does not rely on a single distributor but instead depends on a network of computer.
While this trend may seemingly provide benefits and convenience for most web-centric consumers, this may spell trouble to TV producers and investors who are losing lots money because of this growing popularity of illicit downloading websites.
According to the most recent report, the most downloaded TV shows in US is Heroes which had been downloaded for 200 million times. While this may prove the shows popularity, TV advertisers are quite unhappy with this trend because this means that people can watch this show without any TV commercials. (But this doesn’t mean that viewers will be spared from commercial bombardments because there are still Internet ads existing.)
This is the latest result which revealed the top 10 most pirated TV shows in the US:
1 Heroes
2 Dexter
3 House
4 Desperate Housewives
5 Smallville
6 Fringe
7 Grey’s Anatomy
8 Entourage
9 Californication
10 Stargate Atlantis