PickyPirate: Metacritic Meets BitTorrent

Written by Ernesto on November 21, 2007 

It’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.

PickyPirate: Metacritic Meets BitTorrent

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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26 Nov 22, 2007 at 06:27 by Mr. Dr. Md. PhD.

Wow this is a fantastic idea…i hope they don’t get shut down.. :-/

27 Nov 22, 2007 at 06:37 by Tom Baker

Sweet! Now I would like to know where they would rate jellybabies.

28 Nov 22, 2007 at 07:50 by Anonymous

Alot of potential here….I’d def use it if it improves so sumthin useable

29 Nov 22, 2007 at 08:31 by kyle

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?

30 Nov 22, 2007 at 10:34 by Anonymous

I always wished something like that but with imdb score include (or everything with less than 5 points at imbd excluded)

31 Nov 22, 2007 at 11:02 by torrent man

EDIT: no referral spam please

32 Nov 22, 2007 at 13:59 by maeh

The Digg effect brought the site down?

33 Nov 22, 2007 at 14:22 by Jas

Digg effect…

34 Nov 22, 2007 at 14:39 by anomic

How about a mashup of PirateBay movies RSS and IMDB?
http://www.conceptuel.co.uk/tpb/
http://www.conceptuel.co.uk/tpb/?tpbid=202

35 Nov 22, 2007 at 15:28 by oZEN

the same top 10 crap everywhere…now how boring is that

36 Nov 22, 2007 at 22:01 by Spiike

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.

37 Nov 23, 2007 at 12:06 by hoodlum

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

grmbl

38 Nov 23, 2007 at 13:52 by JusticeFND

Same here… digg efect?

39 Nov 23, 2007 at 21:29 by zomg!

Here works. Im suspicious, it coul me maybe another miivi :/ Ill wait and then see

40 Nov 24, 2007 at 14:26 by Richard Conrad

Good idea. Poor implementation. Not even worth bookmarking.

41 Nov 25, 2007 at 03:43 by Will

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)

42 Nov 26, 2007 at 12:58 by KungfuTornado

So what happened to it now?

43 Nov 27, 2007 at 17:59 by torrent woman

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44 Dec 03, 2007 at 13:47 by Anonymous

Gah. Why does it have to be down >(

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