According to TorrentFreak, The Dark Knight was the most pirated movie of 2008. Ummm, hooray? Somehow I doubt Warner Bros. will include that stat on the DVD packaging. The movie’s been on and off the list of top BitTorrented films throughout the summer as people took video camera footage of the film in theaters or ripped it from screeners.

TorrentFreak’s Top Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent As of Nov. 16, 2008 Rank Last Week Title 1 (new) The Dark Knight 2 1 Traitor 3 4 Tropic Thunder 4 2 WALL-E 5 3 Step Brothers 6 (new) Max Payne 7 9 The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 8 6 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian 9 5 Taken 10 8 Burn After Reading

Over at TV by the Numbers‘ breakdown of the most DVRed broadcast TV shows, McDreamy and crew still dominate the list with 4.089 million viewers via DVRs for the week of Oct. 17-Nov. 2. As TVbtN points out, Obama’s infomercial ran during this week but does not appear on this list because of missing data.

It looks like High School Musical clips helped propel John4210 to the top spot on Video Breakouts’ Cool 100 list, followed closely by Chinese TV programming from New Tang Dynasty TV.

Video Breakouts Cool 100 November 17, 2008   Now Last Weeks Name Views Lifetime 1 … 1 John4210 57,152,736 59,596,283 2 … 1 NTDTV 19,927,407 19,927,407 3 4 1 17 BritneyTV 17,564,681 249,185,499 4 … 9 mileymandy 11,362,475 61,037,024 5 2 3 17 expertvillage 8,791,137 283,989,132 6 … 1 TheFrankFactor 7,631,026 7,631,026 7 9 2 17 hollywoodrecords 7,354,131 245,017,407 8 10 2 16 SHOWTIME 6,720,170 114,307,015 9 3 6 18 huluDotCom 6,644,338 130,893,947 10 11 1 15 JonasBrothersMusic 6,208,780 254,213,304   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 Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) to retrieve statistics. For sites that do not publish APIs, the company analyzes their HTML web pages to discover assets and track statistics.