Current movies big on file-sharing networks

I think this image captured from BigChampagne’s BCDash Web site says a lot. It’s a list of the top movies being shared via Bittorrent.

You’ll notice that at the top of the list is the new Fantastic Four movie, still in theaters. Ditto for numbers 2 and 3. And 4. And 5. But people are already trading them online. Tells you something, doesn’t it?

BigChampagne is effectively the Nielsen of digital music — the big gun that tracks what’s being listened to (or watched). What’s particularly cool about it is that it doesn’t distinguish between legal and illegal sharing; it’s all about what people are doing.

As Kwatinetz from the band The Firm put it in a Rolling Stone article, “How is it that the people that make the product of music are going bankrupt, while the use of the product is skyrocketing? The model is wrong.”