Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent

Written by Ernesto on February 09, 2009 

The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “Body of Lies” tops the chart this week. “Sex Drive” and “Changeling” remain in second and third place respectively.

body of liesThis week there are only three newcomers, and one of these (Benjamin Button) has been listed before. “Body of Lies” is by far the most downloaded movie of the week, with well over a million downloads.

The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. Currently both DVDrips, DVD Screeners and R5 rips are counted.

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Week ending February 08, 2009
Ranking (last week) Movie Rating / Trailer
torrentfreak.com
1 (…) Body of Lies 7.4 / trailer
2 (2) Sex Drive (DVDscr) 7.1 / trailer
3 (3) Changeling 8.1 / trailer
4 (1) Outlander 6.9 / trailer
5 (…) Dead Like Me: Life After Death 7.2 / trailer
6 (4) Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 7.1 / trailer
7 (6) RocknRolla 7.5 / trailer
8 (9) W 6.9 / trailer
9 (8) Quarantine 6.2 / trailer
10 (…) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (DVDscr) 8.6 / trailer

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32 Responses

1 Feb 09, 2009 at 12:22 by Anonymous

interesting.

2 Feb 09, 2009 at 13:11 by Sandeep

same.

3 Feb 09, 2009 at 13:27 by Sinbad

The movie with the highest IMDB rating is at the bottom of the table.
Could IMDB and Pirate’s opinions differ so much?

The only movie I’ve downloaded and watched on there is RocknRolla, and I’ve commented on that movie before.

I am quite interested in ‘Body of Lies’ though, it’s supposed to be like Taken / Arlington Road sort of movie (according to iMDB’s You may also like…)

4 Feb 09, 2009 at 13:40 by philth

yeah but sinbad benjamin has been available for weeks and people would have downloaded it as soon as it was up therefor pirates have seen it and dont download it every week. lol

5 Feb 09, 2009 at 14:02 by NubCakes

Sinbad: “The movie with the highest IMDB rating is at the bottom of the table.
Could IMDB and Pirate’s opinions differ so much?”

Well this chart isn’t about pirates opinions, it’s about what they’re downloading which is completely different.

6 Feb 09, 2009 at 14:13 by jcmon

@3 also Benjamin Button is a screener, and often people will wait the the rip.

much love
x

7 Feb 09, 2009 at 14:17 by jcmon

Also most of these are only downloaded because they are uploaded by one particular person/group: axxo.

I count six of the top ten as his/her/thier releases. SIX!

I dont care how you look at it, that is success… in the releases world.

much love

x

8 Feb 09, 2009 at 14:20 by AiTB

“Sex Drive (DVDscr)”

actually dvdrip is out

9 Feb 09, 2009 at 14:21 by NubCakes

aXXo… avoid.

10 Feb 09, 2009 at 15:13 by Sharing is fun!

I’m sorry I missed it, why should we avoid axxo releases again?

11 Feb 09, 2009 at 15:22 by ( . Y .)

because axxo’s a whiny little bitch who takes credit for scener’s work by re-encoding good quality dvdrips into 700mb’s of lose. plus axxo torrents are the most watched by the mpaa

12 Feb 09, 2009 at 15:25 by SableSlayer

Hes just jealous :P haha

13 Feb 09, 2009 at 15:36 by 1337

Sex.Drive.UNRATED.DVDRip.XviD-ARROW

14 Feb 09, 2009 at 16:02 by Hut

@10 seriously? why doesn’t he just do his own rips instead of re-encoding scene rips? :S

15 Feb 09, 2009 at 19:04 by anon

@10 I have a bandwidth cap and no HDTV, so 700mb files are just fine by me. It makes no sense for me to download files over 1G because it all looks the same on my TV.

I also watch a lot of movies and don’t really want to wait more than a few hours to finish a d/l. axxo’s stuff is great because I can count on a large swarm, consistent file size and can d/l 1-2 movies over a night and watch them the next day.

I have access to a private tracker for HDTV and I can tell you I thought I’d love it when I first got an invite, but I don’t. I downloaded a bunch of movies and ended up switching back to axxo and FxG on public because it’s just more convenient, faster and the only place the quality makes a difference is on my computer monitor which I don’t like to watch movies on.

I don’t understand how you can knock aXXo when he’s clearly filling a massive demand. If you don’t like his releases, then don’t download them and stfu.

16 Feb 09, 2009 at 20:07 by Dan

@8 & 10 – How can anyone be mad at Axxo? Regardless of what you think about the group/person, they’re still uploading stuff for you. FOR FREE!! So don’t be so ungrateful.

Like the other day i uploaded a game that happened to be faulty. Ive uploaded hundreds of other torrents that worked great but still i got unessential rude comments.

I remember when people used to be good to other file sharers. Now it just seems to be everyman for himself which sucks :(

17 Feb 09, 2009 at 20:16 by jo

most of these changeling atc. ben button have been out for a month so why are people only just downloading now?

18 Feb 09, 2009 at 20:51 by Anonymous

It’s like people banging on about how great ipods are, yet you can get an equally great if not better mp3 player for half the price. Axxo’s rips are decent and that is all. You can find much better rips around the 700mb size if you look around (NewArtRiot is a group I recommend).

There are just to many newbies who listen to all that axxo hype rather than taking time to actually find a quality rip.

19 Feb 09, 2009 at 21:12 by Anonymous

@16: true

20 Feb 09, 2009 at 22:17 by BIOHazard87

Axxo is fucking garbage. Stay with quality scene groups for DVD Rips such as Diamond, PUKKA, Vomit, groups like those. They are normally higher resolution / higher bitrate and have a better done encoding job to xvid. I’ve compared Axxo vs Diamond many times and Diamond always wins.

21 Feb 10, 2009 at 01:37 by SiLPHONZA

s Axxo is a stealer and has to be axed

22 Feb 10, 2009 at 02:10 by Rezen

How the hell do you search for “W”????

Tip #234 for Movie Makers on how to make your movie pirate-proof:

Restrict the title to just 1 letter.

23 Feb 10, 2009 at 07:41 by deathracer

i recommend sexdrive , really funny movie. i know some arent gonna agree but i like axxo cause of the 700mb file. i see the difference in quality but don’t care enough to wait for or download the better quality movie/better scene release. also i just see who has the movie and how many seeds there are wich also make me decide.

24 Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02 by Dan

22

Lol thats easy. Search ‘W’ and the year it was made… Ie ‘W 2008′. If that don’t work, add a ‘dvd’ to the search.

25 Feb 10, 2009 at 12:43 by Gozza

aXXo always had good quality, not the same can be said for Diamond with his telesync BS, or Pukka with their R5 bad sound & missing minutes crap. Another reason why aXXo is a winner is because he leaves the endcredits in there.

That being said I think mpaa assholes have taken over this thread.

26 Feb 10, 2009 at 13:31 by NubCakes

I have no idea if aXXo “steals” scene rips – actually I highly doubt he re-encodes XviDs as posted above because the quality loss doesn’t appear to be there.

He may well encode from scene DVD-Rs, in which case there is a small quality loss in many cases – because most DVD movies are released as DVD9 and the main title usually goes over both layers. The scene makes most DVD-R releases as DVD5 and hence re-encodes MPEG2 with some loss of quality.

If aXXo (or anyone) encodes these to MPEG4 (Xvid) then the quality will not be as good as someone encoding from a retail DVD to Xvid because there has been an extra lossy encoding step.

The reason I say to avoid aXXo is it’s not scene. The scene has standards to ensure quality and if releases don’t pass these standards then they’re nuked.

I’ve never seen a 2 CD aXXo release – doesn’t mean they aren’t out there mind you, I don’t get files from places where aXXo releases are to be found anymore. Many DVDs require a 1.4GB release to keep a good level of quality up according to scene standards.

Not all P2P groups are crap – Devise, GrandDK are two that aren’t – however aXXo, imo isn’t up to standards at all. And generally I stick to scene content because it has a quality standard that any random releaser does not have, including proper sources, preperation (cropping etc.), encoder settings and a warranty of quality of sorts (IE. nukinh of bad releases).

27 Feb 10, 2009 at 15:48 by ( . Y .)

Devise…. now that’s a quality p2p group

28 Feb 10, 2009 at 17:46 by akademos

I agree..DiAMOND is better than aXXo !
Infact i find FXG rips better than aXXo…the only thing with aXXo torrents are that they are better seeded even for an old release..look for a year old aXXo release and u will still see a descent d/l rate !
For new ones I will still go for a well seeded scener like pukka or diamnond !

29 Feb 10, 2009 at 18:48 by STANLEE

NICE ONE

30 Feb 10, 2009 at 23:46 by Anonymous

as far as i know, all current benjamin button torrents are missing some scenes.

31 Feb 11, 2009 at 08:50 by BIOHazard87

@ 25

Uh.. how can you compare R5’s from a group like PUKKA to Axxo who only does DVDRips. PUKKA does a fine job on their dvdrips, occasionally a slip up will happen and they or someone else will repack, but for the most part they’re quality. Oh, also to inform you, Diamond doesn’t do telesync releases. Only quality xvid DVDRips. Only 5 movies out of MANY releases since 2006 have been nuked and am sure at least 2 of those were insignificant nukes. Isn’t shit. Diamond owns.

32 Feb 14, 2009 at 00:28 by Miron

I download only axxo because all his rips always have translation in English and Spanish

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