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I found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 https://iknowwhatyoudow

by tacLog 5y ago

I found this site from the torrentfreak link below and thought it was pretty cool. https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 https://iknowwhatyoudownload.com/en/stat/annual/2021 If you flip thru the years at least the top movies in 2018 have more downloads than the top movies in 2021. I think that can somewhat safely answer your questions. EDIT: WRONG because as a comment points out below older movies also might just have been downloaded more over time. From this site, it doesn't look like their was much of an uptick in top downloaded movies from 2019 to 2020. And in general torrenting has been growing less popular. However, the numbers on this site in general don't sanity check very well for me. For example, the End Game Avengers movie, which was incredibly popular, was only downloaded: 2,890 times in 2019? That doesn't seem high enough to me.

TaylorAlexander 5y ago
It does make some sense that movies which have been available for three years could have more downloads than movies which have been available for one year.
- tacLog 5y ago
  I didn't think of this at all. This throws the tenuous conclusions I was drawing completely out the window.
bryanrasmussen 5y ago
Yeah but if most people have services - I have three - then the most popular movies for that year will be on all the services almost. Endgame has been on all my services at some point over the last couple years. I've seen it probably 20+ times. Probably also the people who are most likely to want to watch Endgame have services.
- tacLog 5y ago
  By services you mean, Netflix, Hulu and similar right? Not plex, or the various illegal streaming sites?
  - bryanrasmussen 5y ago
    right.
Freak_NL 5y ago
A friend who torrents these things just checked for me and saw well over a 100,000 'snatches' for that Avengers flick on just one private torrent tracker. So yeah, not 2,890. Think millions.
- tacLog 5y ago
  > A friend who torrents these things just checked for me and saw well over a 100,000 'snatches' for that Avengers flick on just one private torrent tracker. This makes far more sense, I wonder why their numbers are so bad.
- cyxxon 5y ago
  Additionally, I guess there are also many people, myself included, who download stuff again, but I don't use torrents, as I have indeed been burned in the past by that. I now use forums that link to encrypted Mega accounts or similar.
anothernewdude 5y ago
I don't torrent when I pirate anymore (or use usenet). Torrent stats might be going down because there are easier alternatives.
- agentwiggles 5y ago
  Do you mean the common streaming sites that are all over the place now? Or some other better method?
- AnonHP 5y ago
  Easier alternatives such as?
AnonHP 5y ago
The stats can be collected only from public torrents where DHT is being used (AFAIK). There are many private trackers that are closed to the outside world and have tens of thousands of members, each of whom may not only download from the peers within that private tracker, but also share the downloaded content with others.

by tacLog 5y ago

TaylorAlexander 5y ago

It does make some sense that movies which have been available for three years could have more downloads than movies which have been available for one year.

tacLog 5y ago
I didn't think of this at all. This throws the tenuous conclusions I was drawing completely out the window.

bryanrasmussen 5y ago

Yeah but if most people have services - I have three - then the most popular movies for that year will be on all the services almost. Endgame has been on all my services at some point over the last couple years. I've seen it probably 20+ times. Probably also the people who are most likely to want to watch Endgame have services.

tacLog 5y ago
By services you mean, Netflix, Hulu and similar right? Not plex, or the various illegal streaming sites?
- bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  right.

Freak_NL 5y ago

A friend who torrents these things just checked for me and saw well over a 100,000 'snatches' for that Avengers flick on just one private torrent tracker. So yeah, not 2,890. Think millions.

tacLog 5y ago
> A friend who torrents these things just checked for me and saw well over a 100,000 'snatches' for that Avengers flick on just one private torrent tracker. This makes far more sense, I wonder why their numbers are so bad.
cyxxon 5y ago
Additionally, I guess there are also many people, myself included, who download stuff again, but I don't use torrents, as I have indeed been burned in the past by that. I now use forums that link to encrypted Mega accounts or similar.

anothernewdude 5y ago

I don't torrent when I pirate anymore (or use usenet). Torrent stats might be going down because there are easier alternatives.

agentwiggles 5y ago
Do you mean the common streaming sites that are all over the place now? Or some other better method?
AnonHP 5y ago
Easier alternatives such as?

AnonHP 5y ago

The stats can be collected only from public torrents where DHT is being used (AFAIK). There are many private trackers that are closed to the outside world and have tens of thousands of members, each of whom may not only download from the peers within that private tracker, but also share the downloaded content with others.