Over the past decade or so, torrenting has emerged as one of the most popular means of illegally (and sometimes legally) downloading games, movies and television shows. So, naturally, trends in that form of peer-to-peer file sharing reflect the interests of what at least one slice of the population—those willing to violate copyright laws—is interested in at any given moment in time.
The folks over at the Movoto blog—owned by housing information company Movoto Real Estate—decided to look into torrent activity by state and found a relatively wide variety of tastes for movies, TV shows and games. Over the course of 40 days, they collected data from almost 4 million “seed nodes”—users sharing some or all of a file—3 million unique IP address and hundreds of titles. While Movoto looked at a lot of data, the findings are not scientific. (In other words, these maps are just for fun.)
They sliced the data up in various ways, but here’s a look at what they found when they looked at the most popular movies, TV shows and games downloaded via torrent. Click on a map to see a larger version.
(Note: Not all torrent activity is illegal. It is simply a means of sharing files.)
They sliced the data up in various ways, but here’s a look at what they found when they looked at the most popular movies, TV shows and games downloaded via torrent. Click on a map to see a larger version.
(Note: Not all torrent activity is illegal. It is simply a means of sharing files.)
The most popular torrented movies
The most popular torrented games
The most popular torrented TV shows
