Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on November 03, 2008The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “Tropic Thunder” tops the chart this week followed by WALL-E and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.
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| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (4) | Tropic Thunder | 7.6 / trailer |
| 2 | (new) | WALL-E | 8.7 / trailer |
| 3 | (new) | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian | 7.2 / trailer |
| 4 | (1) | Kung Fu Panda | 7.9 / trailer |
| 5 | (3) | Burn After Reading (R5) | 7.8 / trailer |
| 6 | (new) | Star Wars: The Clone Wars | 5.1 / trailer |
| 7 | (2) | Pineapple Express (DVDscr) | 7.8 / trailer |
| 8 | (new) | Futurama: Bender’s Game | 9.7 / trailer |
| 9 | (6) | Bangkok Dangerous (DVDscr) | 5.4 / trailer |
| 10 | (5) | Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull | 6.9 / trailer |
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32 Responses
Nice :)
Next week in Top10, 1st will be Traitor (2008) DVDRip ! ! ! :)
Agreed! Traitor will hopefully be on the list!
I’ll bet that Futurama’s low position goes up next week. This must have barely been released the end of the week so I’ll bet we see it go way up on the charts for next week.
HILARIOUS movie by the way, loved every second. Especially from 45:00 on. :)
Pirated movies are usually an interesting subject of discussion.
While some people think that people pirate movies that are good, the movies pirated are usually mediocre, because if somebody wanted to see a movie they would most likely pirate it and see it.
With this in mind, looking at these kinds of lists can be a good way to filter out the so-so movies and find the really good ones, in conjunction with review sites, such as fandango.
i find IMDB (and to a lesser extent, Rotten Tomatoes) to be pretty accurate for my taste in movies.
A movie rating on IMDB needs over 500 votes to be worth considering though.
Oh god, Tropic Thunder was an absolutely horrible movie.
@3, what in the world did you find so good about that movie?
it was ok at best…
I find these lists to be little more than what (mostly) crapware Hollywood released recently, along with what derivative, repetitive, cliche-abusing series nerdcore is watching.. they have nothing to do with any lasting quality of media.
@6 – As bad as the one with your Ma & the donkey?
I thought bangkok dangerous was an r5.line not a dvdscr?
@4
Im not paying $50 bucks to go to a theater regardless of the movie.Unless im getting a bj from a sex craved virgin with the purchase of each ticket youll never see me in those shit holes
@8
I agree. I see no reason why anything Hollywood should be endorsed at all. Until there are more independently made works, there is little to cheer, because really, why should we cheer on Hollywood and the MPAA? A bad independent movie is better than a “good” Hollywood one. The latest movie I saw was “Kung Fu Panda” two months ago, which I saw only because I was forced along – the first I have seen one for over a year. I think it was absolutely horrendous (no offense to contrary opinions), where I get a sense that those who made the movie really cared not at all about the actual worth of the movie, but just wanted to make something to “impress people” just to make more money (and, needless to say, I was unimpressed by their pretense). I say, it is best never to go to the movies at all – why support an industry like this?
Roze
http://www.10ch.org/
Remember people, taste is a highly subjective thing.
Also, here’s something to think about: there’s a well known psychological effect that occurs with most people (including myself undoubtedly). This is as follows: if you pay money (or any other resource you have presumably) to have an experience then you are far more likely to rate the experience in a positive light.
Seeing as most people here wouldn’t pay to see a movie if theyre life depended on it I’d say this comes into effect.
Personally I don’t let the distributor, studio or budget of a movie affect my evaluation of it like the morons above. Seeing a movie isnt cheering anybody on, particuarly when I copied it in the first place. IMO there’s good and bad films in any arena – although I have to say that there’s more completely crap independent films out there.
If no one went to the movies at all there would be an extremely shitful industry – think student films that no one understands and are dead boring. Despite all the ravings of people trying to justify themselves around here that they pirate just because studio execs are making money and no one else, it’s a fact that without a return films would not get made – be that good, bad or whatever.
Anonymous I’ve been reading over these posts for sometime and I think this is my first response, and it’s because I absolutely agree with you in the above statement, and well put for the nitpickers.
I hope “the loft” will be available soon online… seen it at the cinema, it was great.
the best scene release this week was Global Metal – A Documentry
@12
You are quite incorrect there. The value of a work is not just based on the work itself, but also upon the circumstances of its creation – this is especially true when it comes to art and creative works. The fact is that it is quite possible that there be films made independently of big copyright-supported industry; it just has not materialized because it is pushed aside by the economic power of the industry.
Roze
Roze, that makes no sense at all…
@19
How does it not make sense? Can you not read english? I wrote two things – First: “The value of a creative work depends on both the work itself, who made it and how it is made.” Second: “Films without the motivation of money rewards are possible, but only when there is no copyright.” There you go; I have dumbed it down so that people of your intellectual capacity have the capability of comprehending what I have previously written.
Roze
One more thing to say: of course the creator matters! Creative artistic works are a social activity of expressing one’s personal thoughts and feelings to other people. Absent the person from it and his or her thoughts and feelings, it becomes nothing more than meaningless, fake stuff purely to extract money from people, without care to its actual value – cheap, insincere and disingenuous products just to attract and/or impress an audience, uncaring about any real communication of personal thoughts and feelings to the audience.
Roze
This is pretty cool …and there are nice blogs out there like http://www.filenest.com that work hard to make dvdrips availble in every form for everyone . I love the web and digital age …filesharing boom . Humans are naturally generous
Thank God .
Who in their right mind is torrenting “Star Wars: The Clone Wars”? The animation style on that thing is just guly.
@20 : Roze: “Films without the motivation of money rewards are possible, but only when there is no copyright.”
I’m sorry, I have to agree with 19, you’re quite incorrect. Anyone, right now, can make a film or any other creative work, and release it under an open license of some sort, so how is it that this is ONLY possible when there is no copyright exactly? Expecting artists to do this is about as absurd as me expecting you to produce a film for me free of charge.
Artists have gained a return of some sort for hundreds of years for producing work that entertains and amuses people.
You seem to have an attitude that artists will provide quality content in a capitalist model of economy. This may be true for a few – sure – but most films require thousands (at least) of dollars to produce – are artists supposed to come up with that themselves.
Roze: “Absent the person from it and his or her thoughts and feelings, it becomes nothing more than meaningless, fake stuff purely to extract money from people, without care to its actual value – cheap, insincere and disingenuous products just to attract and/or impress an audience, uncaring about any real communication of personal thoughts and feelings to the audience.”
There’s so many things wrong with this: there’s so many extremely popular works that don’t have this built in: where do you suppose the “personal thoughts and feelings of the author” are in Tekken, Doom 3 or GTA 4 ? How about Robot Chicken? Also you seem to be assuming that mass audiences are stupid, dumbed down and can’t appreciate what you can which smacks of misplaced elitism and the possiblity that you think your more intelligent than others – classic security blanket for low self-image.
Also, you keep referencing “values” which is an entirely subjective thing and seems to miss the point that sometimes people just want something light, fluffy and meaningless to take them away from their normal lives.
@26
I really do not see how any of this “low self-image” or “elitism” is relevant to what I wrote. Either my statements are correct and incorrect, and my self-image has nothing to do with it. Moreover, I never even wrote anything related to “what I appreciate” – I may or may not think that others are less intelligent, but I was writing about mass culture, not about “my culture.” My dumbing down of my message is a reference to how I made my message clearer and more understandable in response to a clueless person saying “you make no sense” – but clearly you must have missed that. You would do better not put words into my mouth that I have never even written.
If you have half a brain, you would understand what I have said: that, due to this culture of commercialism, everything non-commercial is just pushed aside in favor of the holly-wood types. This is why it is necessary to bring down the current culture in order to replace it with something better.
Second, I really do not see where you got this “appreciate what I can” from. I never talked about what I appreciated – merely the value of the works themselves. True, it is subjective, but people judge works all the time, and therefore there is a common consensus about much of it – one being that commercial culture is pure exploitation. Thus, I am assuming that the masses are of average intelligence, which makes them easy to exploit for the purposes of industrial profit. This means that Tekken, Doom 3, GTA 4, etc. – yes, indeed, they are made by industry to exploit the masses. It is a corrupt industry, one that needs to be taken down.
Roze
@26
Also, “content”? Artists do not make “content.” Artists make works of art. There is a difference.
Roze
@26
Popularity is not the same thing as value. Do you think that just because the industry markets something widely, and thus is able to exploit the masses to get their money, that it is thus something of “value”? Popularity of works does not equate with its ultimate goodness.
Roze
@26
“Artists have gained a return of some sort for hundreds of years for producing work that entertains and amuses people.”
If that is so, then it needs to change. Art is not “entertainment and amusement.” Art is something that affects people and their lives, and becomes a part of people. Art is not a commodity – rather, it is something that becomes part of living consciousness. And this certainly does not require money. A return is certainly not what art is about – the reward of others seeing it is a reward enough.
Roze
Roze: Gimme a break – content is a generic term and applies to everything that is produced. Artists produce content. “works of art” are content seeing as it’s a generic term.
You’re very confused: you equate marketing with exploitation. Marketing is in essence letting people know about something and has nothing to do with the percieved value of it. Please enlighten us how letting people know about something is exploitation. Do you think its a good idea that there is no marketing so no one knows about works of art?
You really seem to be confusing your own taste (your perception) with whether something is “good”, or of high quality, or not. Not everyone has the same tastes as yourself thank god.
Art is “entertainment and amusement” – not wholly so, but that is a subset of the world of art (which is a very broad term in itself).
If a creation appeals to a subset of people then it is a commodity: whether you think it should be or not doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of art is bought and sold.
Some (actually almost all) art requires money. Now you do have a point when you say: “…A return is certainly not what art is about…”. Agreed and most often art that is produced purely for financial gain is considered to be crap by many people – however that certainly doesn’t change the fact that people consider content (art) to be valuable and thus will pay money for it.
If there was no financial returns for art then there would be massively less art produced (artists would spend time earning money in other ways – ie working for someone else). You may think that the reward of others seeing it is enough but most artists recognise they have a commodity to make money from.
Again: can you please produce a movie, write a book or a video game for me and give it to me for nothing?
@30
To answer your question: Yes, but only if I like you. I don’t. If I wanted to do so, it would be because I want to – yet I don’t like you, so why would I want to? I would happily write books to give for nothing, and perhaps video games too, but not for you. The answer is yes, there can be incentive without money, and that is the personal one of affection for both the work-to-be and the people you are creating it for. And without that, the work is worth a whole lot less.
Actually, you are the one who is confused. Are you saying that the creator’s affection for the audience community and work itself is worth nothing? Only then could you say that it is not better for there to be the audience participation and the caring of the original creator for both the community of audience and the work itself. While value is subjective, one nearly universal value is that the creator’s affection for the audience and work itself, in addition to audience participation, is something that is good, which is better to be there than absent.
Roze
@30 : OK, so now youre resorting to babbling shit because you cant come up with an answer that fits with reality and the real world?
“I would happily write books to give for nothing, and perhaps video games too”
Bullshit. You wont do it – please if you really think this write something and put it up on the internet.
“there can be incentive without money”
So what? The sky is blue as well.
“personal one of affection for both the work-to-be and the people you are creating it for. And without that, the work is worth a whole lot less.”
Crap. That has nothing to do with how people percieve art.
“Are you saying that the creator’s affection for the audience community and work itself is worth nothing?
Yes. In the real world, not in your crack-addled reality of your own brain.
“Are you saying that the creator’s affection for the audience community and work itself is worth nothing?”
Please quote the text where I said that.
“While value is subjective, one nearly universal value is that the creator’s affection for the audience and work itself, in addition to audience participation, is something that is good, which is better to be there than absent.”
Which again, proves jackshit.
On the one hand you’ve said that art that doesn’t reflect the creators values and ideals is *always* crap and now you say that the artist must have affection for his audience. Which is it?
But please, make some art for us and put it up on the internet: according to you it’d make you happy and the only reward you should get is the fact that people look at it.
One more idiotic, far-fetched, opinion-as-fact statement from Roze and I think he should be banned…
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