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Movies File Share Top Ten is compiled with statistics from Big Champagne. For an explanation of how BC arrives at the numbers, here's the company's Adam Toll.
“We monitor BT sites (a constantly evolving set) and observe, in addition to all the other available information, the number of users leeching(downloading) each title at any given time. Using the information collected and processed continually, we then calculate the average number of simultaneous leechers for each period. This is a little different from the P2P measure, as explained below.
“While the P2P measure published on p2pnet.net shows the average simultaneous users who are sharing the movie on P2P networks, the BT measure represents the relatively smaller number of people who are, on average, actively downloading the movie (in other words, in the process of downloading the movie) at any given time. This is a very different statistic. These two measures are a consequence of the differences in the ways that P2P and BT work.”
With all the dross being pumped out by research and marketing firms on what's supposedly happening with p2p, it's good to have at least one firm around which shows the picture as it really is as opposed to the way the many supposedly 'independent' reports commissioned by the entertainment and software cartels present it.
We're sorry about missing a post last week --- not all the stats were available.
Note: 'Return' means back after a week's absence. If it's back after longer than that, it's designated 'new'.
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloaders ('leechers')
BitTorrent, World-wide
Current simultaneous leechers as of November 4, 2006
| Ranking |
Movie |
Number of Downloads |
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>>> The Break-Up (new) |
42,185 |
| 02 |
>>> Nacho Libre (new) |
41,394 |
| 03 |
>>> Open Season (new) |
41,037 |
| 04 |
>>>The Departed + 5 |
39,990 |
| 05 |
>>> X-Men: The Last Stand - 2 |
37,406 |
| 06 |
>>> The Prestige (new) |
36,130 |
| 07 |
>>> Saw 3 (new) |
35,832 |
| 08 |
>>> The Grudge 2 - 2 |
34,187 |
| 09 |
>>> Click (new) |
33,716 |
| 10 |
>>> Over The Hedge (new) |
33,688 |
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads
p2p, World-wide
Week ending November 4, 2006
| Ranking |
Movie |
Number of Downloads |
| 01 |
>>> The Break-Up (new) |
1,593,665 |
| 02 |
>>> The Departed (unchanged) |
1,592,288 |
| 03 |
>>> Saw 3 (new) |
1,567,066 |
| 04 |
>>> Open Season - 1 |
1,531,056 |
| 05 |
>>> X-Men: The Last Stand - 2 |
1,526,160 |
| 06 |
>>> Nacho Libre (new) |
1,526,138 |
| 07 |
>>> The Prestige (new) |
1,522,217 |
| 08 |
>>> Over The Hedge (new) |
1,485,783 |
| 09 |
>>> The Grudge 2 - 3 |
1,484,766 |
| 10 |
>>> Click (new) |
1,471,286 |
Movies File Share Top Ten Downloads
p2p, USA
Week ending November 4, 2006
| Ranking |
Movie |
Number of Downloads |
| 01 |
>>> The Departed + 2 |
963,925 |
| 02 |
>>> The Break-Up (new) |
958,818 |
| 03 |
>>> Open Season - 1 |
946,270 |
| 04 |
>>> Saw 3 (new) |
938,600 |
| 05 |
>>> The Prestige (new) |
932,579 |
| 06 |
>>> X-Men: The Last Stand - 3 |
931,812 |
| 07 |
>>> Nacho Libre (new) |
921,043 |
| 08 |
>>> Over The Hedge (new) |
907,075 |
| 09 |
>>> The Omen (new) |
903,975 |
| 10 |
>>> The Grudge 2 - 7 |
867,358 |
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Music Publishers, Kazaa Reach File-Sharing Deal |
 November 01 , 2006 at 9:29 AM PT
AP
The music publishing industry reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement. The settlement "will be another key milestone of the ongoing transformation of the digital music marketplace to one that will allow legal services to thrive," NMPA President and Chief Executive David Israelite said in the statement.
The music publishing industry reached a tentative deal with operators of the Kazaa file-sharing network over claims of copyright infringement, an industry group said.
Publishers pursuing a class-action suit against Kazaa informed U.S. District Court on Monday that the peer-to-peer network had agreed to pay "a substantial sum" under the agreement, the National Music Publishers' Association said in a statement.
Significant Step
The amount of the settlement was not disclosed. It is subject to final approval by the association board.
The settlement "will be another key milestone of the ongoing transformation of the digital music marketplace to one that will allow legal services to thrive," NMPA President and Chief Executive David Israelite said in the statement.
Phil Armstrong, a spokesperson for Sharman Networks, which owns and distributes Kazaa, said he was not familiar with the lawsuit and declined to comment.
Sharman Networks announced in July that it had settled copyright infringement lawsuits with music labels and movie studios, agreeing to redesign its software to block customers from downloading protected music and movies and to pay more than US$115 million in penalties.
Growing Trend
The agreements are among a wave of legal settlements between file-sharing networks and the entertainment industry since the Supreme Court ruled last year that technology companies caught encouraging customers to steal music and movies over the Internet could be sued.
Last month, a federal judge ruled against StreamCast, the distributor of the Morpheus online file-sharing software, finding the firm encouraged computer users to share music, movies and other copyrighted works without permission.
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