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As of Thursday afternoon, "Spore" had been illegally downloaded on file-sharing networks using BitTorrent peer-to-peer transfer 171,402 times since Sept. 1 Tha
by froo 18y ago
As of Thursday afternoon, "Spore" had been illegally downloaded on file-sharing networks using BitTorrent peer-to-peer transfer 171,402 times since Sept. 1
That number seems awfully low, I'm having a real hard time believing this figure to be true, I just did a quick count-up of downloads on the various torrent sites I know of and I came up with about 300k, no doubt there has been more downloads when you factor in other protocols and direct downloads (eg, rapidshare type links)
I'm guessing the "research firm" probably just went to ThePirateBay and counted there - I don't think they took networks/trackers into account that aren't as recognisable as TPB.
- vaksel 18y agoI think they just counted the # of people leeching/seeding on the different sites. Because if you look, just one torrent on pirate bay has: 6385 seeders and 16797 leechers.
- froo 18y agoTrue, I don't disagree with this statement - but I just don't think it necessarily shows the full figure. There are a lot of people who once the file is complete, stop torrents - which would make this seeder/leecher number a lowball type figure. I don't have any experience with games or software as the only thing I download is tv shows (only the ones I can't actually get in Australia.. I'd pay for them if I could get them) but from my experience, as soon as a show is uploaded it has a huge seeder/leecher ratio, but several days afterwards, that number appears is always considerably less. For some anecdotal evidence, one TV show I was watching in particular had stopped being shown in Aus but within hours of it being "released" online I was seeing up to 30k seeders at times, yet several days later that number had dropped considerably down to 3k. I just quickly typed Spore into mininova and looked at the top result by seeders and it shows the downloads as over 144k just off mininova alone, although no doubt a few of these would be incomplete, but given mininova's "market share" compared to say the rest of the torrent sharing community, the figure in the article comes across as incredibly low still.
- silencio 18y agoThe dropping of seeds/leechers on older torrents is a given for BitTorrent. Torrents are a particularly bad way of finding older material to pirate - not necessarily older in age of content but more the torrent file.
- tdavis 18y agoI love my tracker... 908 Seeders 33 Leechers and it's 12 days old.
- Zev 18y agoIf you're looking on public sites, keep in mind that they all tend to archive the same trackers. So make sure each torrent you add up is unique and not the same one being reported multiple times from various places.
- froo 18y agoI did, otherwise that number would be in the several millions.