Bit Torrent’s biggest hits

If you’re under 30, you probably understand what Bit Torrent is: in its generic sense, free software used to find and download movies, TV shows and pirated music online. It’s so popular that experts say Bit Torrent traffic accounts for 30 percent to 50 percent of all Web data being shipped from point to point on the Internet.

Here are 2007’s top downloaded movies and TV shows as reported by popular Bit Torrent tracking site Mininova. (A tracking site like Mininova does not host the actual files; it merely uses software that identifies other dispersed computers where the assorted copies of a given file are.)

Films

“”Transformers”

“”Knocked Up”

“”Shooter”

“”Pirates of the

Caribbean: At World’s

End”

“”Ratatouille”

TV

“”Heroes”

“”Top Gear”

“”Battlestar Galactica”

“”Lost”

“”Prison Break”