StatShot: Top BitTorrented Movies and the Cool 100

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So have you read the rumors popping up on the web yesterday that there might by an Indiana Jones pt. 5? Ugh. Guess the Crystal Skull didn’t kill the cherished childhood memory enough. But Indy’s still got pull as people are BitTorrenting the heck out of his latest adventure. Indiana is joined by fellow newcomer Vin Diesel and his box-office bomb Babylon A.D..

Teens and politics are the names of the game on the Video Breakouts Cool 100 list. Teen singer Jesse McCartney’s videos put him comfortably in the top spot, TMPTV (formerly of Veracifier) debuted at No. 4 on the list.

Video Breakouts Cool 100 October 6, 2008
Now	Last		Weeks	Name	Views	Lifetime
1	…		2	jessemccartney	15,593,418	19,079,446
2	…		13	expertvillage	8,198,841	229,145,594
3	1	2	14	sonybmg	7,886,183	394,748,049
4	…		4	tpmtv	7,332,531	21,399,465
5	…		11	JonasBrothersMusic	6,117,192	216,698,080
6	…		13	hollywoodrecords	5,685,664	205,366,457
7	3	4	13	CBS	5,596,161	246,637,046
8	2	6	14	huluDotCom	5,580,852	87,312,773
9	…		13	machinima	5,491,931	172,487,646
10	…		12	Fred	5,289,672	110,361,447
Key:	Gain   Loss   No Change   New

NOTE: TorrentFreak data is based on http downloads of .torrent files from various BitTorrent sites. The data is collected by TorrentFreak and is for informational and educational reference only. Currently both DVDrips, DVD Screeners and R5 rips are counted. The “back” designation means that the title was in the list before and has reappeared, possibly in a new format.

The Video Breakouts Cool 100 offers a weekly snapshot of the most viewed Internet video authors and producers. Click any author in the list to see their Author Summary Report. All Video Breakouts lists and statistics are gathered through selective discovery and tracking. Where available, Video Breakouts uses video site APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to retrieve statistics. For sites that do not publish APIs the company analyzes their HTML web pages to discover assets and track statistics.