Fox's 'Prison Break' Free On Hulu, But 1 Million Prefer BitTorrent

Michael Learmonth | September 3, 2008 6:35 PM

prisonbreak.jpgMore than a million people have illegally downloaded the first two episodes of Fox's "Prison Break" on BitTorrent sites since they first aired on Monday night, according to Torrentfreak.

This, even though both episodes were made available for free soon after their TV premiere on both Hulu and Fox.com.

Wired checked to find out how that compares with Hulu, which declined to say how many viewers they'd had for both shows since Monday. The two episodes were listed No. 3 and No. 6 on Wednesday's "most popular" TV episodes.

Why steal a TV show when it is widely available for free? Wired makes the case that P2P sites are habit for a lot of users. Moreover, they'd rather watch without the ads. Add to that at least one more strong reason: Hulu isn't available outside the U.S., making P2P the only option for foreign users. That, and once downloaded, the shows can be watched on computers without an Internet connection.

While Fox isn't getting any ad revenue from P2P, they should take some solace from the fact that 1 million cared enough to illegally download the show. A mere 6.5 million watched the show on Fox Monday night, according to Nielsen -- nearly a million fewer than the 7.4 million who watched the premiere of the show last year.

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21 Comments

Gordon said:
anyone know if the new Entourage will be on hulu? Sep 7 it premiers. when would it be on hulu? they have old seasons now. i'm too cheap to spend $20/month on hbo. and i'm a friggin twx shareholder to boot!
Jahbuh said:
Why do the intellects always come up with illogical answers? The reason why people download it rather than stream it from Hulu is because Hulu only keeps the episodes up for a period of time while downloading it means you have a copy for life. Look 1 plus 1 does equal two, wow.
Jahbuh said:
@Gordon HBO does not have a working relationship with Hulu so you will not find any Entourage on their site, but guess where you can find it... that is right - on any bitorrent the day after an episode airs and in high def too.
Gordon said:
as i said, the old episodes are on hulu - agreement be damned.

when will new ones be added?

http://www.hulu.com/videos/search?query=entourage

Jahbuh said:
@Gordon Those are just redirects sending you to the HBO site. Here is an article to cry over http://newteevee.com/2008/01/21/hbos-baffling-broadband-plan/
Sascha said:
I'm sure plenty of the one million viewers who downloaded it are non-US residents who *don't* have access to Hulu or Fox because those sites are blocked overseas.

I know, I'm one of them ;)
barf said:
What's the premise of this show? Didn't he break out of prison already? Then didn't he break back in? I mean how many prison breaks can one do in a lifetime? And... more importantly, how interesting can it be?
SilentP said:
The BT download numbers can be misleading. There are many people who "collect" series via BT but may not ever get around to watching them. They subscribe to feeds for content and systematically download them.
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Dan said:
A quick thought on the ratings being lower than last year's: I have to admit the show is a guilty pleasure -- it's almost like a trashy version of The Wire. I DVR'd last season, but even though I was one of the few people looking forward to it, the first I heard about the new season was an on-air promo the day before the two-hour season opener. Poor promotion on Fox's part, to be sure.
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