Oscar Winners 2008 Popular on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on February 25, 2008It happens almost every year, a few hours after the Oscar winners are announced, people fire up their BitTorrent clients. The day after the award show is traditionally “Oscar winner download day”, as people are desperately trying to find that Oscar winning movie they haven’t seen yet.
Winning an Oscar is probably the best thing that can happen to a movie. DVD sales sky-rocket, and even more importantly, the number of people downloading the movie through BitTorrent increases dramatically.
Mininova’s search cloud is a nice illustration. Below is a screenshot of the search cloud on Mininova 12 hours after the Oscar winners were announced, and for comparison, here is another one taken two days ago.
Most prominent in the search cloud is yesterday’s winner “No Country for Old Men”, that received four Oscars, including the one for the best movie.
There is more though. Almost all awarded movies are in the list of most popular searches - There Will Be Blood, Michael Clayton, La Vie en Rose, Juno, The Counterfeiters, Once, Sweeney Todd, Taxi to the Dark Side, Elizabeth, Ratatouille and Golden Compass. There is only one remarkable absentee from the list, and that is The Bourne Ultimatum.
People are not only trying to find the movies on BitTorrent, it seems that a lot of people are downloading the award ceremony as well, because search terms like Academy Awards and Oscars are also among the most popular search terms.
Last year we reported on the OscarTorrents site, a site where BitTorrent users could choose their own winners. Unfortunately, the site was not available this year as the creators have no time, but they’re promising to be “back next year”. In the meantime (and as usual), the full range of movies will be available at dozens of other torrent sites, right around the world.
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oscars, lol
oscars are jewish
hahaha axxo still lives
people aer just fools
I wasn’t surprised about the Bourne Ultimatum getting such a low response on Mininova although the awards it won as far as I could see were for the work of the technicians not the actors or the movie itself (Sound Mixing, Sound Editing and Film Editing). I was surprised at No Country for Old Men coming out on top as I found it a bit too long, rather boring and very formulaic. My favourites from the list of winners were Atonement and The Golden Compass.
There will be blood = There will be boredom (for the viewer)
omg how do i get the oscars movies on my emachine? can you help[ me setup the program to download it is it written in VB I I need that! now, my friends are comming ove rand I need that stuff,
Mininova is gay
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“DVD sales sky-rocket, and even more importantly, the number of people downloading the movie through BitTorrent increases dramatically.”
how detached from reality can you be to make this statement?
[quote comment="297815"]omg how do i get the oscars movies on my emachine? can you help[ me setup the program to download it is it written in VB I I need that! now, my friends are comming ove rand I need that stuff,[/quote]
Sorry, users of emachines (low cost, shit hardware) are not tech savy enough to understand. If you can’t even figure out how to run a bit torrent client (esp. with the LARGE amount of info available via Google) you’re sure not going to understand how to ’setup the program to download it is it written in VB’.
Get a life and quit trolling.
[quote comment="297822"]Mininova is gay[/quote]
Ermm, no. Refer to what mediadefender said about their moderation. Refer to their simple clean interface. Refer to them being the most used torrent site.
They don’t have a tracker, but the pirate bay is for that, and is now spread across 30+ countries, so will never be taken down.
And wahts wrong with being gay? Homophobe.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1198516
Oscar 2008 Winners Pack
http://www.btarena.org/movies/oscar-2008-winners-pack
How on earth could no country for old men win anything, it’s such a shit movie, it starts well but then it just gets so poor.
pretty gay film title as well xD
[quote comment="297735"]oscars are jewish[/quote]
Asshole.
does “no country for old men” sound like a teen porn or is that just my dirty mind ? i haven’t seen it but i hate movies that take so long you just wish you fast forwarded to see the good 2 mins at the very end indeed bourne ultimatum shouldn’t have gotten much in the Oscars it was an insanely technical movie but nothing special in the acting i see enchanted there LOL keep your kids off of these sites or that slightly gay friend (we all have one)
AXXO lives on
No country for old men sounds like an old western.
[quote comment="297812"]There will be blood = There will be boredom (for the viewer)[/quote]
You sir, are an idiot.
You can thank your god that the cohen brothers exist. Good movies are harder to come by. Old Men is a fair bit above the regular shite. Stop your bitching and go make your own movie.
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