PickyPirate: Metacritic Meets BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on November 21, 2007It’s not hard to determine what’s hot on BitTorrent, just go to your favorite BitTorrent site and order the results by most seeds or peers. However, finding out what’s popular by people “in the know” usually requires some more steps.
This is exactly the gap PickyPirate is trying to fill. PickyPirate fetches the most popular movies, games and music albums from Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, two well known review aggregators, and lists them on the frontpage.
For those not familiar with meta-review sites, these websites make a ranking of the movies, games and music albums that received the best reviews from critics. The links to these entries on Metacritic or Rotten Tomatoes are of course included and there you can read the full reviews.
Ehud, the developer of PickyPirate told TorrentFreak that a friend asked him why nobody created a mashup of BitTorrent and Metacritic, “I immediately thought ‘Hey, that’s a really good idea!’” he said. “Basically I never know what to download from all the stuff that’s available.”
The site currently lists most popular items from the last 30 days for all categories (Music, Movies, PC Games, Xbox 360 and Wii). The lists are updated every 15 minutes, so if the scores change on Metacritic, they will be quickly updated on PickyPirate too.
If you click on one of the items on the frontpage it automatically lists all the “relevant torrents” available on The Pirate Bay and Mininova for that title, but more sites might be added later.
BitTorrent users have a huge amount of material at their fingertips and as such, they can afford to be very picky indeed. However, not everyone has the time to be picky but with the help of sites like this, allowing others to do it on your behalf can come a good second.
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Nice idea =)
Great idea :)
Wow, I love this idea.
Fantastic idea!
Would be nice if they integrated a quality assurance type dealy by using actual release reviews.
I.E. they use the metrics from the critic sites as a value, but also work in what the pirates are saying about a given release.
Look at it this way, say the movie in question is transformers. You’d bring up the relevant torrents, but you are still on your own as to if those torrents are solid and scene standard.
Would be nice if they take that headache away aswell, so the torrents show up, and are rated by release name and quality within the torrent results.
There’s atleast a few sites doing scene reviews, so it isn’t completely impossible ;)
Sweet site!
Greatest idea ever!
Hehe… search needs some work. #3 in music right now is 45:33 by LCD Soundsystem, if you click on that it gives you “Complete Mozart Edition - All 45 Volumes”, “Dream Dance Vol 45″, …
Neat idea though.
PhishyBongwaters’s idea is good. I also hope more categories and subcategories will be added in the future.
And since I’m a Picky Pirate: [..], and does it’s best to match it[..] in the description: “it’s” should be “its”.
:)
good idea just needs a rss feed
Another great idea. And another new bookmark.
awesome :D
Wonderful!
Less known artists might get a chance with the help of this initiative. Another reason for bans/directors to go torrentway.
awesome stuff ;)
Great!! And i agree an RSS feed would be cool!
plz add:
mac appz, graphics
What a stupid bloody idea..
Choose what you dl by what is considered popular by other people? Yeah.. right.. will do…
Quite frankly I would trust the human race en mass to tell me how to tie my shoe laces, never mind to “advise” me what I should find good to watch/listen/play.
Humans en mass are nothing but an ignorant, dimwitted, bigotted, unthinking, misguided, illeducated, easily led entity, worthy of nothing but scourn.
Individuals are ok, but put a bunch of them in a room and ask them their “opinion” and the “stupid factor” suddenly kicks in.
Nice I’ll try it out
Nice idea but I’ll stick with Releaselog to help me out.
Wow - supernice!!
@Ghoomba: Metacritic uses weighted critic scores to rate content. The most respected reviewers having more weight. So it isn’t just what’s most popular.
Hi everyone,
Thanks for your comments, I appreciate them very much.
I’m already thinking about some of your suggestions which were interesting.
If you find the site useful, please Digg it and spread the word.
I wouldn’t mind more listings, maybe 60-100 in each category or so.
Ace idea though, the only thing missing really is reviews to go with them but they’re easily enough found,
Crap.
@Goomba: Some humans are not only ignorants and dimwitts not only en mass but as individuals as well.
Wow this is a fantastic idea…i hope they don’t get shut down.. :-/
Sweet! Now I would like to know where they would rate jellybabies.
Alot of potential here….I’d def use it if it improves so sumthin useable
useless. is it really that hard to search mininova for yourself after you go to RT?
much more useful would be a site that actually was metacritic meets bt: rank the available releases for any given title by quality.
in the results for ratatouille, they list the original rip over the repack. how useful is that?
I always wished something like that but with imdb score include (or everything with less than 5 points at imbd excluded)
EDIT: no referral spam please
The Digg effect brought the site down?
Digg effect…
How about a mashup of PirateBay movies RSS and IMDB?
http://www.conceptuel.co.uk/tpb/
http://www.conceptuel.co.uk/tpb/?tpbid=202
the same top 10 crap everywhere…now how boring is that
Actually some already did this a while ago.
http://kronocide.com/kronocide-2/forum/cgi/topic_show.pl?tid=47
I like their version better.
503 Service Temporarily Unavailable
grmbl
Same here… digg efect?
Here works. Im suspicious, it coul me maybe another miivi :/ Ill wait and then see
Good idea. Poor implementation. Not even worth bookmarking.
Nameserver trace for pickypirate.com:
* Looking for who is responsible for root zone and followed m.root-servers.net.
* Looking for who is responsible for com and followed a.gtld-servers.net.
* Looking for who is responsible for pickypirate.com and followed ns1.vpslink.com.
Nameservers for pickypirate.com:
* ns1.vpslink.com returned (SERVFAIL)
* ns2.vpslink.com returned (SERVFAIL)
So what happened to it now?
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Gah. Why does it have to be down >(
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