FlixFlux: BitTorrent Site Includes Movie Trailers

Written by Ernesto on June 24, 2007 

FlixFlux is a relatively unknown BitTorrent site. The site focuses on movie releases and lists box office and DVD rental charts on the frontpage. Just recently FlixFlux added movie trailers to all the titles, pirate friendly, but something the MPAA probably won’t appreciate.

flixfluxFlixFlux has a description for every film including the IMDB rating. Additionally, film loving pirates can keep track of their favorite movies on the site. With the recent addition of trailers the site introduced yet another “user friendly” feature.

TorrentFreak had a chance to talk to Ben, the owner of FlixFlux to ask him about his motivation to keep adding such features to his site, he said:

“Basically the whole reason I put FlixFlux together was to make it easy to find decent films to download. It’s not always easy to work out what a film is going to be like just from the plot summary and list of genres. With a trailer though you get a good idea of what a film’s going to be like. So I guess the reason I added them was to make it easier to find decent films to download”

Adding trailers to the site and listing the charts on the frontpage will almost certainly grab the attention of the MPAA. We asked Ben whether he thinks this will make him an easy target for the MPAA.

“It’s up to the users if they want to download the torrents or not, and that may or may not be illegal where they are. What the site provides is a list of box office hits, details about them and a list of available torrents. None of the movies are hosted by me, nor any of the torrents. So hopefully I’ll be safe from the MPAA.”

Easy target or not, FlixFlux will keep indexing the latest movie torrents and introduce more features to the site. “I want to make it even easier to find movies in the future”, Ben says “Instead of just listing the new releases it’d be nice to be able to say “show me a good horror from the last couple of months” or “list any comedy from the last couple of weeks.”

We’ll keep an eye on it.

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6 Responses

1 Jun 24, 2007 at 15:32 by Bolt_Gundam510

never heard of the sit before till now, it’s good to have trailers with all the movies on there. at least you can watch them and if you like them buy it if not go to the next one and see. about the MPAA he wouldn’t be easy bait, couse i think he gives them the choise to down load the .Torrent file if they want.

2 Jun 25, 2007 at 04:37 by smartass

There is really nothing special about this site other than IMDB ratings and movie trailers. Every decent uploader puts a link to IMDB anyway

And for trailers almost everyone goes to apple trailers. Although sometimes you go to youtube to find older stuff but it really doesn’t set this torrent site apart from the hundreds of others.

3 Jun 07, 2008 at 13:59 by mohamed

hi. how are you?

4 Jun 07, 2008 at 13:59 by love actually

i like this movie.

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