"No thanks to Channel 7, who have managed to take off "Lost" for
another 2 weeks :-/ It will be a waste of time putting the second
series on next year, as most tech-savvy people would have already
downloaded the second series (if Torrent is still running then!)."
I read an article a while ago, that was provided as a link in an
email to the WAMUG mailing list, that stated a large increase in
viewers had been observed for shows Dr Who and the newish space one
(can't remember the name. The article claimed that torrent sharing
was responsible for the increase in viewers as people who'd seen the
shows and liked them would tell their friends about how good they
thought they were and possibly show them enough of the downloaded
shows for them to get a taste of what the shows were like.
This was when the both of the TV shows were new in Britain so it may
not apply to shows that have been around for a while (that is if it
really did apply in the first place).
Ruben A. Franke
