Online trading of TV episodes grows

LOS ANGELES — Missed the final episode of Frasier or Friends? Many college kids aren’t waiting for the reruns. They’re downloading the shows instead. With millions of unauthorized media files being traded on the Internet, it’s impossible to put an exact number on how many TV episodes are out there.

But Jorge Gonzalez, who runs Zeropaid.com, a file-sharing guide, says he’s seen “a big increase in the last six months for new sites that specialize in trading TV shows.”

The Simpsons, Friends, The Sopranos and other shows are readily available at both Kazaa, the world’s most-used file-sharing program, and new sites like eDonkey, TVTorrents.com and Bucktv.net. BayTSP, a Silicon Valley company that tracks unauthorized Internet file trading, found nearly 20,000 files of popular TV shows like The Simpsons and Alias being offered for free on Wednesday.

List of relevent websites

1. 
   http://www.bucktv.net/


2. 
   http://www.the-realworld.de/


3. 
   http://isohunt.com/


4. 
   http://www.suprnova.org/


5. 
   http://www.torrentreactor.net


6. 
   http://www.fileheaven.org/forum/


7. 
   http://shareconnector.com/

Related Posts

1. Got Warez? Twenty Years of Online File Trading
2. Does trading music bother us?
3. The Quest to Filter Unauthorized File-Trading
4. File Sharing Grows, But Slowly
5. PROOF That File Trading Sells DVD’s