Þessu var póstað á póstlista sem ég er á og mig langaði bara að forvitnast hvort einhver hérna vissi eitthvað meira um þetta:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/television/30manl.html?pagewanted=2
"Created by Bram Cohen, a 29-year-old programmer in Bellevue, Wash., BitTorrent breaks files hundreds or thousands of times bigger than a song file into small pieces to speed its path to the Internet and then to your computer. On the kind of peer-to-peer site that gave the music industry night sweats, an episode of "Desperate Housewives" that some fan copied and posted on the Internet can take hours to download; on BitTorrent, it arrives in minutes. BitTorrent may sound like some obscure techno-trickery, but more than 20 million people have already downloaded the application. Each week dozens of shows are shared by hundreds of thousands of people. "The Simpsons," "Family Guy" and "Friends" top the most-popular list, but even "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Trading Spaces" and "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" landed in the Top 20 for the week ending Jan. 16, according to Big Champagne, which measures file-sharing activity. "
(For the week ending Jan. 16, OFF was the most downloaded show)
And this is the line that got my atention:
Recent hit shows like "The Simpsons" can make a profit of $15 million - a season. And those are exactly the shows traded most online, according to Big Champagne.>
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