No it hasn’t. They have been recording 14 million PEERS connected to TPB torrents. A single peer / user can and usually will be connected to more than one torrent swarm. TPB has no way of – and would never try to – match up IPs between different torrent swarms. So you are wildly overestimating the number of simultaneous bittorrent users with that statement.

Why?

Because there’s no midroll ads (Hint give me more overlays and targeted advertisng )

I can watch it on my TV in my Loungeroom via XBMC (Hint Networks provide downloads/streams and make sure they work on game consoles and other boxes that are in peoples lounger rooms )

Better Quality (The Downloads available on Bittorent are usually better quality than the flash versions from the broadcasters )

The US broadcast Window forces the networks to make the content available at least 12 hours after it airs on bittorent popular shows are up within 15-45 minutes after they air on the east coast (Hint geo block streams via timezone so I can watch the show minutes after it airs in the east coast)

This is really the only way to fight piracy! and it works, I heard they had great numbers, way beyond any movie VOD success.

What I like the most about this is that the shows are in English, whereas series that air on TF1 channel are always dubbed in French which is unbearable.