Fallout most downloaded torrent of 2006

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While I'll note that our server policy is against illegal p2p and torrent downloading (so don't ask where you can download Fallout 1/2 in this thread), Fallout 2 beat out all other games, movies and music to become the most downloaded torrent of 2006 with staggering numbers:<blockquote> Number 1:
Fallout 2 & Fallout 1 (A Game)

Fallout 2 is a critically-acclaimed computer role-playing game published by Interplay in 1998. It was downloaded a whopping 1,165,564,987 time(s)! That is correct a game was the most popular torrent for 2006. It was downloaded more than 1 billion times! The bandwidth it consumed was a staggering 1,468,611,883 GB!</blockquote>If one out of every hundred Fallout 1/2 downloaders would buy an original Fallout-esque Fallout 3, you'd outsell Oblivion three times over. Note two things:
Since it looks like this torrent is 1.26 GB per download, I'm assuming it's a Fallout 1 & Fallout 2 pack download, not just Fallout 2.
More importantly, it is unclear where the article got its numbers from or how there can be such a staggering difference between numbers 1 and 2. Until some kind of affirmation can be found, keep in mind that it is not impossible that these numbers are falsified.

Link: Top 10 torrents on Free Limewire

Spotted on DaC.
 
Does this sound factual to anyone? How the hell can anything have 1 billion BitTorrent downloads?
 
Those bastards! :)

Perhaps a torrent download doesn't refer to the whole thing, but rather a portion of the files being transmitted? I'm not sure how torrents work exactly.

Still: #1 is impressive.
 
Silencer said:
Perhaps a torrent download doesn't refer to the whole thing, but rather a portion of the files being transmitted? I'm not sure how torrents work exactly.
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Note that number 2, Darkwater, was downloaded 2.3 million times, vs. Fallout 1/2's 1.2 billion times.

that just doesn't make sense
 
Jabberwocky said:
Does this sound factual to anyone? How the hell can anything have 1 billion BitTorrent downloads?
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There are 6.5 billion human on this planet. 1/5 of them have computer and at least internet connection. And not many of them can afford the 10-15 bucks to buy a playable masterpiece/cannot ship to their place (stupid amazon.com policy)/or even want to try first then buy (which rarely happen).
 
nah, cant be true... there's hardly anyone sharing it.

either someone done a lot of clicking, or that site simply had their facts falsified for whatever reason.
 
Sovz said:
nah, cant be true... there's hardly anyone sharing it.

either someone done a lot of clicking, or that site simply had their facts falsified for whatever reason.
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Anyway we can check? Any reference material?

There are 6.5 billion human on this planet. 1/5 of them has computer and at least internet connection. And not many of them can afford the 10-15 bucks to buy a playable masterpiece.
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Yeah, but not all of them use Torrents.
 
Jabberwocky said:
There are 6.5 billion human on this planet. 1/5 of them has computer and at least internet connection. And not many of them can afford the 10-15 bucks to buy a playable masterpiece.
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Yeah, but not all of them use Torrents.
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Torrent makes up 1/3 of the internet usage around the world.
 
i highly doubt this has any truth in it at all. sure, FO1/2 are classics, but no way you'll get that many downloads for an old game. hell, a new game wouldn't even get those numbers.
 
zioburosky13 said:
Torrent makes up 1/3 of the internet usage around the world.
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Eh, what?
Source, and define 'internet usage'.

Also, it's theoretically possible but highly unlikely that those numbers are correct. Unless everyone decided to download it multiple times over, which, again, is unlikely, especially considering the length of the games.
 
I looked around, no one else had mentioned anything about it. There is not a single torrent file that is older than 3 months - meaning they don't survive for very long, hence saying that its the most popular file for 2006 is a GROSS overstatement.
The most popular of those torrents is 1.08 GB share, tracked by deminoid, there are roughly 80 people who are either downloading or seeding it.

Now, there is NO WAY that website (I've never even heard about it till today) could have had a unified stats about torrent downloads form EVERY torrent site online. Hence I believe that those stats were falsified for whatever reason.

:EDIT:
Statistics form Mininova
http://www.mininova.org/stats/tor/

fallout is NOT on the top 10 list.
 
Sander said:
zioburosky13 said:
Torrent makes up 1/3 of the internet usage around the world.
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Eh, what?
Source, and define 'internet usage'.

Also, it's theoretically possible but highly unlikely that those numbers are correct. Unless everyone decided to download it multiple times over, which, again, is unlikely, especially considering the length of the games.
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Usage = bandwidth. I mix them.
http://in.tech.yahoo.com/041103/137/2ho4i.html
Taken from Wikipedia
"CableLabs, the research organization of the North American cable industry, believes that BitTorrent could represent 55% of the upstream traffic on the cable company's access network.
CacheLogic puts that number at roughly 35% of all traffic on the Internet. Another paper states that some 18% of all broadband traffics carries torrent files needed to initiate Bittorrent downloads. The large discrepancies in these numbers could be caused by dissenting opinions on the methodology to measure P2P traffic on the Internet."
 
So, in fact, they know nothing at all about it because they can't properly measure.
 
Jabberwocky said:
Does this sound factual to anyone? How the hell can anything have 1 billion BitTorrent downloads?
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Hehehehe...hahahaha...

Well then...considering the second most downloaded was aeons behind Fallout 1/2 and the fact that Fallout is so old its easy to say that this is incorrect...until you take into account one thing.

We all know what most people consider the internet to really be for...so its pretty obvious...

Someone put Fallout up describing it to be porn.

Thats why...

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The Vault Dweller
 
well the number seems a way to big, maybe someone punched too much zeros :D but still if its still parcialy realistic then fallouts 3 sales are not gona be that impresive on the world scale couse we see how some people prefer getting theyre fallout :D
 
Maybe someone has downloaded it more than only one times. Like "oh, know I have Fo1/2, but I want it again!" or such a thing.. don´t know... :>

Maybe it was so much fun, downloading it.. or so.
 
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