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Lost Season 6 Premiere Pirated On The Beach

The sixth and final season of the hit series Lost will have its TV-premiere in the US tonight, but it’s already available online. In what must be a world first, the first episode of Lost’s new season was camcorded during a beach screening this weekend and is now widely available on BitTorrent.

lostLast year, Lost achieved the questionable honor of being the second most pirated TV-show on BitTorrent. With more than 6 million downloads per episode, Lost was only trailing Heroes by a few thousand downloads.

There is no doubt that the final season of the show will again be a strong contender in 2010′s list. However, it already has the honor of becoming the first TV-show to leak online after being recorded using a webcam on a tropical beach.

The copy of the first episode that appeared online two days ago was recorded during a live screening hosted by ABC at an Oahu beach. Well over 10,000 fans of the show attended the screening and at least one of them decided to record it via their laptop webcam.

The recording was posted online a few hours later and is now available on virtually all BitTorrent sites. The video quality is ‘reasonable’ according to initial reports from people who downloaded the file. The sound quality on the other hand is not that good, which is not really a surprise considering that thousands of people were present.

The cammed version of the episode has been downloaded a little over 25,000 times on BitTorrent thus far, which is really low and unlikely to cause ABC to lose any viewers tonight. If anything, it might serve as free publicity reminding people that the new season is starting soon.

From the torrent site comments we indeed learn that the majority of fans say they would prefer to see the episode in full quality on TV, or download a copy on BitTorrent a few hours later. In this case, most people seem to prefer quality over early access, which must be a comfort to the makers of the show.

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  • achmed

    Cool, Party on

  • worpre

    great but I will also wait.

  • Lol

    Yep I’m definitely waiting. It’s only a few more hours at this point anyway.

  • YessaMassaWEG

    Great, now we have to move the island.

  • Anon

    Wait… It’s recorded with a webcam? That’s impossible. The quality is excellent!

  • blah

    Im going to wait and watch it in HD, with my Tivo. Rather than a laptop cam.

  • anon

    @5
    There are HD webcams. My laptop can record 720P.

  • Rob

    If you download something that has been recorded in the states (I live in the Uk) Like 24 on fox or this on ABC can you still get infringement notices as it is recorded from the TV not ripped from dvd? I have been downloading 24 As the 1st ep was only played in the UK on SUNDAY weeks behind what I have watched so far from Fox

  • cause

    I’m downloading it now, will watch it ASAP, then proceed to join friends for the premier tonight!

    thanks for the heads up!!!

  • 1′s buddy

    cool, dude! party on, bro! awesome, dawg. shit iz rad!

  • LOL

    Now that is funny.

  • http://www.eZee.se www.eZee.se

    Boggles the mind how Heroes could have been #1, that shows a total POS (in fairness season 1 was good).

    A pal of mind had downloaded this ep, but i think i’ll wait for an eztv release to watch properly as the audio (as mentioned above) really sucked.

  • Barse

    Yep, Heroes is crap. Never seen lost. Is it as bad?

  • Nutman

    Lost is hands down the greatest piece of television ever made. As for Heroes being the #1 most pirated, I would say it probably is not. The statistics TF puts together are always horribly inaccurate and are not a real representation of total downloads or ranking of downloads. One only has to look at this article to see that
    “The cammed version of the episode has been downloaded a little over 25,000 times on BitTorrent thus far”

    I know of 2 sites personally where it has been downloaded over 15,000 times on each one. 2 sites equal more than the figure they give in this article. There are thousands of sites from which to get this episode.

  • Anon

    Barse i thought lost was shit, but that was because it never really made any sense by the time you finished watching season 1

  • Anonymous

    @14: “Thus far” means “at the time of writing” so it is no surprise that it has been downloaded more times than stated in this article.

    Oh, and Lost is cack in my opinion. The pilot was dreadful and I was happy to not download any more episodes.

  • yup

    @8
    yes can still get infringement notices
    but don’t recall any one ever getting one for tv shows.

    but at the end of the day using sky plus is no different than torrent tv shows . it just a different way of making a copy.

    also about heroes for others
    season was great with a crap ending it has gotten worse week after week since.

  • Dan

    watching the premiere of the last season of lost in a crappy camcorded video format is an insult for a real lost-fan, better wait one more day and download the 720p version

  • Ren

    Was a horrible copy anyway, not good enough to watch.

  • Anonymous

    it’s just easier to wait and watch it on TV, why would you want to see it with random peoples’ heads blocking the picture?

  • noddy

    i downloaded the torrent and now i have sand in my laptop >:-(

  • Taylor Natalia

    uhhm, i wanna have that pic.. how can i have it? Ive been googling it.. but havent fount it.. help please.. :)
    email me: hairspray_wannabe80@yahoo.com

  • Gary

    How impatient can you be if you can not resist watching it with such awful quality?
    Much better to wait a day or 2 and get to watch it in good quality.

  • Lost Fan

    I saw this cam two days ago, but will still watch a better copy. Lock is the smoke monster after all.

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  • liquidmonkey

    the quality was crap!!
    v 6
    a 4

    just wait a few more hours to really enjoy it!

    probably the same people that watch TS copies will watch this though

  • lol

    Show is crap, it’s to far fetched, glad it’s over.

  • Bob Dole

    @26
    Lost will never be over.

    It’s the same plot in every season convincing people that it will end, when in fact it will just keep going on for 10 more seasons.
    And yet, people are so gullible for staying tuned into bottomless storyline.

  • Lost Fan

    Lost is the best TV show ever!!! Why does it have to end?

  • Anonymous

    Could someone tell me what time the 720p record will be realised on the torrent sites?
    approximately?

  • Anonymous

    Lost is crap. How could anyone like it? No wonder there pulling the plug on it.

  • The Damascian

    @30 No wonder there pulling the plug on it.
    rite ! they waited till season 6
    do us a favor & go back to ur cave

  • bleh

    Lost is like prison break, stupid. You’ll think after being “lost” once they won’t get lost 2 3 4 5 or 6 times lmfao.
    Just like prison break, they break 1 2 3 4 times? What is the “police” doing? In the real world you would figure they would be on watch.

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  • rossoneri91

    Lost is one of the best shows ever made, if not THE best!
    I hated it at first but I’m glad I kept watching it..
    I’m gonna wait till a decent version is uploaded on eztv which is soon I hope lol
    I just hope they wrap things up properly and don’t mess up the show!

  • Hans Pandeya

    Thank god, should of canned this piece of trash long ago. Now im off to take a dump.. over a poster of lost.

  • Roflfail

    Cool story, Bro!

  • Mark

    Lost… *sigh* it should have died years ago.

  • James

    Lost Season 6 Episode 1 airs today 02/February/2009 in the United States and Canada.

    However the episode is already available to watch online in english HDTV quality from being aired a day earlier in Europe.

    You can watch Lost Season 1 Episode 1 the season premiere online in high definition DivX quality with no download for free at http://www.watchlostseason.org.

    Watch Lost Season 6 Episode 1 now:

    http://www.WatchLostSeason.org

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  • Unauthorized Content Consumer

    @38/39

    Mmmm….spam…

  • ahmed

    how can i downlood it :S?

  • Jed O’ Leary

    If you need a link go through this 15second youbube thing and you will be directed. The First hour is ok, but the next two AWESOMe

  • Jed O’ Leary

    If you need a link go through this 15second youbube thing and you will be directed. The First hour is ok, but the next two AWESome
    here it is people…..:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWWLEAnfzEQ

  • Anonymous

    LOST is fantastic…if you don’t like it, go cry somewhere else…obviously, some people really like it or they wouldn’t be willing to watch some sh*tty cam of a premiere.

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  • Doom

    @ YUP

    downloading via torrents is not the same as sky plus, the only reason sky plus is available is that youve allready paid for the viewing rights and are forced to record the adverts (you can fastforward). with torrents you are bypassing the main income of the tv stations income (adverts) and get the show much quicker than airtime (UK).

  • Anonymous

    has the good quality version been uploaded yet? if so where . isohunt?

  • Anonymous

    Cams are the worst. The sound is usually terrible. The quality is usually terrible. Especially compared to high def rips which I normally download. I avoid cams at all cost. Ill be waiting and watch it on television. If I miss it, I’ll wait for a high def rip to download.

  • Whatever

    I have LOST interest for Lost a long time ago. They drag it on forever. But everyone has their own taste.

    At least funny how this got ‘pirated’ really close to the sea. Then next premiere should be done at sea.

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    can i use this hair straightener on my pubes? this is so relevant to my interests! like omg!

  • Yatti420

    Still have to see season 4-5-6 any links to youtube or torrents?

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  • Grim

    I can’t believe people still watch that crap.
    See hollywood and others, that’s the proof that piracy actually helps you.

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