A study funded by Village Roadshow and conducted by the University of Ballarat's Internet Commerce Security Laboratory (ICSL),
found that about 72% of 1000 BitTorrent files researched were movies and TV shows.
Over a million computers were used to seed the network with video files.
Village Roadshow is a member of the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft.
(AFACT). They recently lost a legal battle with iiNet to make the ISP responsible for its customers downloading behavior. They are appealing
You can download the full report from the AFACT website - link below.
The most interesting part of the report is right at the end.
If you want to see the hundred most downloaded (and hence most popular) film and TV shows, go to Appendix B.
SPOILER ALERT : There are no Australian titles in the top 100. |