As the World Changes – Again – the TV Top 50

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Ministers are flying home after negotiating the ACTA agreement, which very soon may not be required.

It would appear that there is some experimentation being conducted that very soon could moot the very reason for ACTA.

Finally, we are seeing the Content creation companies figure out how to commercialise their products on the P2P networks.

The No 1. TV show Globally is Heroes.

Here’s the Top fifty Television Program file sharing list.

1	Heroes Series 4
2	Lost Series 5
3	Fringe Series 2
4	House Series 6
5	Supernatural Series 5
6	True Blood Series 2 (in Hiatus until June 2010)
7	Desperate Housewives Series 6
8	Greys Anatomy Series 6
9	Star Wars: The Clone Wars Series 2
10	The Mentalist Series 2
11	The Big Bang Theory Series 3
12	Smallville Series 9
13	Californication Series 3
14	Flashforward Series 1
15	Gossip Girl Series 3
16	Stargate Universe Series 1
17	Bones Series 5
18	How I met your Mother Series 5
19	Burn Notice Series 3
20	Legend of the Seeker Series 2
21	Sanctuary Series 2
22	Merlin Series 2
23	The Vampire Diaries Series 1
24	Doctor Who Series 4 (2005)
25	Criminal Minds Series 5
26	Ugly Betty Series 4
27	Family Guy Series 8
28	Private Practice Series 3
29	Ghost Whisperer Series 5
30	Lie to Me Series 2
31	CSI Series 10
32	NCIS Series 7
33	Brothers and Sisters Series 4
34	Damages Series 2
35	90210 Series 2
36	CSI: NY Series 6
37	Scrubs Series 8
38	The Office (US Version) Series 6
39	One Tree Hill Series 7
40	V (2009) Series 1
41	Sons of Anarchy Series 2
42	American Dad Series 1
43	Glee Series 1
44	Nip/Tuck Series 6
45	Two and Half Men Series 7
46	30 Rock Series 4
47	Numbers Series 6
48	Better off Ted Series 1
49	Flashpoint Series 3
50	Castle Series 2

Of course, the list is heavily skewed towards American shows because after all, there are more Americans ripping content than any other country.

But are those Americans now including the show content creators?

Regular readers would be aware of the P2P scoring methodology that we developed earlier this year which takes into account several factors including the trust value, (including encoding quality), the file size, it’s availability on the network and its popularity (requests).

The P2P score tells us at Peceptric which are the file sharing winners and which are the losers.

Everyone knows how easy it is to remove advertisements from digital (DTV) rips. Therefore when we see “contains an advertisement”. not advertisements – just a solitary advertisement, it can only be classified an experiment.

Someone distributed a copy of the current episode of Heroes with a commercial in it. (Top line of the following table).

Title

P2P Score

Size

Avail

Requests

Heroes.S0408.Once.Upon.A.Time.In.Texas.HDTV.XviD-2HD.avi [350.30 Mb] ~has a commercial~

185,035,466

350.3

539

540

Heroes s04e08 Once Upon A Time In Texas
720P Hdtv x264-Ctu.mkv

103,904,741

1009

326

Heroes s04e08 Once Upon A Time In Texas
Proper Hdtv Xvid-Notv.avi

61,040,045

349.92

178

190

Heroes s04e08 Once Upon A Time In Texas
Hdtv 2Hd Reencoded h264 Aac.mkv

158,085

119.04

And, they distributed it first.

Result as in the table above, the version with the commercial has a higher trust value, a larger request and availability base.

Consequently, 51% of file sharing downloaders of this weeks episode of Heroes will be watching a commercial.

Voluntarily. By Choice. Because the commercial inclusive version was the first one posted.

Wasn’t that interesting boys and girls?

We live in interesting, technologically turbulent times – that doesnt mean people should be sent to jail for experimenting with technology.

References:

Multiple file sharing sitesinc. ED2K and Torrent indexes

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