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Half of all BitTorrent downloads are TV shows

Posted Feb 15th 2008 9:23AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Industry, TV on DVD, Desperate Housewives, Lost, Web, Heroes, Software, TiVo

We all know that how people watch TV has been changing dramatically in the last few years, but now comes this news from TorrentFreak.com: 50% of all people using BitTorrent at any given point in time are downloading a TV series. More than anything else, it's TV content they want.

What this means is that TV fans aren't just watching TV shows live or using DVRs and TiVos alone. They're just as apt to download a show to view on a laptop, desktop or iPod. According to the article, "over a billion TV shows are downloaded every year and this number continues to rise."

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