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Most popular movies get downloaded 60,000 times a day

New York Times in a story on movie downloading lists the BigChampagne data for top movie downloads for June 7 - June 14 week. The top downloaded movies get almost 60,000 downloads a day. The most downloaded movies Movie Number of downloads Star Wars Episode 3 419 623 Madagascar 416 662 The Incredibles 411 887 Meet the Fockers 393 605 The Aviator 386...

Tags: movie, BigChampagne

Blog posts 2005-06-20

What is downloaded over P2P: music - 74.3%, movies - 2.0%

New York Times in an article on peer-to-peer threat quotes the BigChampagne data on what's being downloaded over the peer-to-peer networks. Music still remains the leader, with movies comprising 2% of the downloaded data. What's downloaded over P2P Category % Music 74.3 Other video 8.9 Images 2.3 Movies 2.0 Other 12.5 Source: BigChampagne

Tags: P2P, BigChampagne

Blog posts 2005-06-20

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T-minus 14 hours and counting: seven reasons why Torrents are buzzing with illegal Leopard seeds

Always clued-in David Kravets of Wired.com THREAT LEVEL blog has been noticing detection of BitTorrents that seem to be carrying illegal files of Apple's new (as in being released in 14 hours from time of this post) Leopard operating system. Not only is...

Tags: Reason, Apple Inc., Leopard, Patience, Productivity, Internet, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-10-26

RIAA willing to take its lumps in filesharing fight

News.com's Greg Sandoval took a look at the filesharing case against Jammie Thomas from the perspective of the RIAA. Sandoval points out that nothing makes a huge dinosaur industry look worse than slapping a Native American woman making $36,000 with a $200,000 fine for making 24 songs available online, quite...

Tags: Record Company, RIAA, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-10-09

9.67 mln simultaneous P2P users in January 2006

According to BigChampagne, in January 2006 there were 116,000 more total P2P users from December 2005. This brings the global total to a record 9,670,552 simultaneous users. The US contributed 8,265 to this number, and reached its own record of 6.98 mln users. It's an increase of over 1.28 mln...

Tags: P2P-user

Blog posts 2006-02-26

13 bln songs available for download on peer-to-peer networks

About 13 bln songs were available for unauthorized free trading on online swap networks in 2004, according to Internet measurement service BigChampagne. Around 200 mln songs last year were sold to consumers at authorized sites such as iTunes and Musicmatch.

Tags: network, P2P

Blog posts 2005-01-26

13 bln songs available for download on peer-to-peer networks

About 13 bln songs were available for unauthorized free trading on online swap networks in 2004, according to Internet measurement service BigChampagne. Around 200 mln songs last year were sold to consumers at authorized sites such as iTunes and Musicmatch.

Tags: network, P2P

Blog posts 2005-01-26

66% of P2P music searches include only song name

BigChampagne researched the search patterns of the peer-to-peer networks users and Digital Music News reports on the results of the survey in P2P Charts & Data section. About two-thirds (66%) of all searches are song-specific. Artist-specific searches trail far behind, with only 27% of the query volume. Album-focused searches are...

Tags: P2P

Blog posts 2004-09-17

Altnet says P2P spies violate patent rights

Altnet says P2P spies violate patent rightswow, getting ugly"That technique, which uses a "hash," or a digital representation of all the information in a file, has even been used by the Recording Industry Association of America in its fight against online copyright infringers."Breaking IP laws to stop people from breaking...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Peer to peer (P2P), DVD, Consumer electronics, Eric Garland, Altnet, patent right, P2P, DVD Rip

Discussion threads 2003-11-12