There are many metrics that can be sampled, many challenges to normalization. eg: https://ext.to/browse/?sort=seeds&order=desc&cat=1&q=2019 https://ext.to/brow

There are many metrics that can be sampled, many challenges to normalization. eg: https://ext.to/browse/?sort=seeds&order=desc&cat=1&q=2019 https://ext.to/browse/?sort=seeds&order=desc&cat=1&q=2019 is a listing of 2019 movie torrents ranked by seeds (number of clients holding full copies of a torrent version). A normalization challenge is to group torrent variations (1080p rips and 720p rips and WEB-DL's and BluRay and etc.) and tally up and rank interest in various films over time. Clearly Ne Zha (2019), a Chinese Animation, Fantasy, Adventure movie was a global pirate star of that year .. should it be "normalized" by population of country of origin to smooth out the home team having a billion+ in population "bias" ? One advantage of ranking films by year and pirate copies is it provides a pragmatic measure of "staying power" https://ext.to/browse/?sort=seeds&order=desc&cat=1&q=1964 https://ext.to/browse/?sort=seeds&order=desc&cat=1&q=1964 My Fair Lady, Dr Strangelove, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Mary Poppins, A Fistful of Dollars, and Goldfinger are still being hoarded 60 years after their release. * https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/615453 https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/615453 * https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ne_zha https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ne_zha