Top 10 Most Pirated Movies on BitTorrent
Written by Ernesto on March 15, 2010The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, ‘The Hurt Locker’ tops the chart this week followed by ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians’. ‘The Twilight Saga: New Moon’ completes the top three.
This week there are two newcomers in the top 10. Oscar winner The Hurt locker is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent.
The data for our weekly download chart is collected by TorrentFreak, and is for informational and educational reference only. All the movies in the list are DVDrips unless stated otherwise.
RSS feed for the weekly movie download chart.
| Ranking | (last week) | Movie | Rating / Trailer |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | (10) | The Hurt Locker | 8.0 / trailer |
| 2 | (…) | Percy Jackson & the Olympians (R5) | 6.0 / trailer |
| 3 | (1) | New Moon | 4.6 / trailer |
| 4 | (2) | From Paris With Love (R5) | 6.6 / trailer |
| 5 | (4) | Sherlock Holmes (DVDscr) | 7.7 / trailer |
| 6 | (3) | Ninja Assassin | 6.6 / trailer |
| 7 | (7) | Up In The Air | 7.9 / trailer |
| 8 | (6) | Legion (R5) | 5.3 / trailer |
| 9 | (5) | The Boondock Saints II | 7.1 / trailer |
| 10 | (…) | Brooklyn’s Finest (DVDscr) | 7.5 / trailer |
Previously: uTorrent Accused of Unfairness, Banned by Trackers
Next: File-Sharing and Link Sites Declared Legal in Spain
40 Responses
New Moon sucks. Thank god it dropped from #1 last week
The Hurt Locker is an amazing film. And finally Avatar is gone!
Sherlock Holmes SCR? It’s out in HD.
Brooklyn’s Finest actually looks like a pretty good film.
I might go see that in the cinema tbh, rather than download the crappy version with a hard-coded timer.
@3
The Hurt Locker is a terrible shaky film which gave me a headache.
Fixed that for ya.
Surprising that Alice in Wonderland is not yet in the top 10. The latest TS “proper” by IMAGiNE (v.3 so far) is near DVD quality and really stands apart from all the crappy cams that litter the internet.
Another notable thing about IMAGiNE is they’re not a ‘scene’ group at all, they’re a P2P release group that releases direct to BitTorrent.
I’ve not seen such high quality TS releases since Centropy got busted many years ago. Let’s hope they stay safe and keep producing.
@7 ur correct IMAGiNE is not scene therefor they cannot release a “proper”
and yes sherlock holmes should not be listed as dvdscr seeing as the dvdrip and 1080p are out.
At john, brooklyns finest isnt hardcoded. there is no timer or subtitles on the copy i watched, keep looking.
Rx rls of brooklyns finest had a blurred timer but all the others had hardcoded timer
@8 “by wow” – So why can’t a non-scene group release a “proper”?
Even though IMAGiNE doesn’t label their releases as such, they could be considered “propers” – as IMAGiNE’s releases are far better quality than the crap currently being put out by scene groups.
i dont think you understand much about the scene or p2p which is ok but a “proper” is a scene term, therefor can not be used for a p2p rls.
Your right many p2p rls’s are higher quality but for them to be labeled a proper means they would give a crap about the scene which they do not
Excuse me – what is the correct definition of “proper” in this context?
lol, this is the first week since december without Avatar in Top 10 )
#15
OMG LOL.
Can i give new name for scene? S.N.O.B :)
discount!
discount!
discount!
you don’t get a discount for agreeing with me!
sorry
happens to me all the time!
#15
…WTF
I think it’s funny that a spammer would post here. I used to work as a spammer myself for a short stretch, and this is totally the wrong demographic to target. maybe #15 is foreign or just running a script, or maybe #15 has a posting quota?
Frelling.. “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” is not the name of the movie!
Percy Jackson is the main character,
The Olympians is the name of the *series*,
and this movie was The Lightning Thief…
there is no imagine v3 or even v2 out, just theri original, which is the best so far. If you’re seeing v2 and v3 out in the world of public trackers, you are sadly mistaken.
And were all inaccuracies systematically checked for and corrected?
This is somehow weird
According to this article http://torrentfreak.com/oscar-win-boosts-hurt-lockers-piracy-numbers-100312/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Torrentfreak+%28Torrentfreak%29
“Alice in Wonderland” is ranked 3rd and 4th as the most popular search term. Shouldn’t that, at least on a smaller scale, reflect upon the most downloaded movies?
Imo it should at least show up in this top10 too if it is so sought-after, or am I missing something?
“@8 “by wow” – So why can’t a non-scene group release a “proper”?
Even though IMAGiNE doesn’t label their releases as such, they could be considered “propers” – as IMAGiNE’s releases are far better quality than the crap currently being put out by scene groups.
They can’t release a PROPER because PROPER is a tag used by the scene to indicate a certain aspect of a release.
The scene has rulesets which define various aspects of a release that pertain to quality. Any title can only be release once (and hence “wins”) – unless it’s not conforming to scene standards defined by the ruleset or it’s an INTERNAL release.
If a scene release doesn’t conform to rulesets another group will release the same title with the tag PROPER.
Since IMAGINE is P2P they have no other release to PROPER as their is no race in P2P, titles can be released as often as whetever idiot feels like it – indeed IMAGINE often release several encodes of the same title themselves – and other P2P groups will release the same title very often.
Another tag that P2P groups use that they shouldn’t is READNFO – in the scene this is used to explain if a release is unavoidably out of scene rulesets to nukers. Seeing as there is no race or nukenet in P2P this tag is pointless.
Also, in addition to the fact that there is no universal rulesets in P2P and hence no way to PROPER a release – the PROPER tag does not have anything to do with quality perse, it’s entirely to do with conforming to scene rulesets.
The fact that IMAGINE has a far better source for their telesync release than any scene group (allegedly – I do doubt you judgement as you do seem to not know piracy very well – and also claim a TELESYNC is almost DVD quality LOL) has nothing to do with with the PROPER tag is used…
IMAGINE have no justifiable way to PROPER anything as they have no rulesets to follow and operate in an enviroment where anything goes. There is nothing to stop another P2P group making another encode of lesser quality and labelling it PROPER – it means nothing and is nonsensical without being in a universal ruleset and system liek the scene.
“Can i give new name for scene? S.N.O.B :)”
Yeah, OK, you obviously have no understanding of how things are.
The scene operate secretly – IE. they don’t want anybody involved unless they are a part of teh scene’s function for a reason. That reason is risk of prosecution with consequences including serious jail time as has happened.
Some release groups have release tens of thousands of titles. Some site operators have sites that have PBs of storage – penalties are potentially enormous. Some suppliers risk losing their jobs for supplying software or other media. You really have NFI.
Also they don’t want uncommitted newbs for several reasons: there is a quality standard to maintain, any new member can potentially be a snitch/law enforcment or they could just be unproffesional or unknowledgable such that they are a security risk.
Most content on P2P originates from within the scene. The stuff that doesn’t is often low quality, non-working dross made by amatuers who also get caught facing charges and if they aren’t the fact is they *could be*. There is no quality control on P2P releases nor any motivation to even provide content like there is in the scene.
You may wonder how P2P gets so much scene content? Through site operators that allow it basically – these sites are taken down by LEA at a rate far greater than any higher level sites because of this extra way in. (There is a ranking system within the scene and sites that leak to P2P are lower down and not affiliated with any release groups in general – if release groups did affil with these site then they become an easier target see…)
Whilst there, very recently, some rare P2P groups that rival and sometimes surpass the scene quality wise, the fact still remains that content provided by them is insignificant compared to that provided by the scene. Also note that most P2P groups do not release onto public trackers because of security (IE. you can’t use seedboxes on public trackers for the most part). There is no P2P rulesets (quality definitions and standards), no competition (which promotes new content getting released) and no way of assessing that quality guideliens have been followed (nukenets). The competition aspect is far more important than many non-sceners realise. Most people don’t do stuff like uploading content “just for the hell of it” and if they do it’s often for the “e-fame” so it’s usually popular releases. Thanks to competition – the number of releases is more important than what is actually released in other words – scene groups are always willing and seeking more unreleased content, not just popular content. Probably, in my estimation, less than 10% of scene content makes it out to the public – most of it being TV, popular games and movies. Actually Bittorrent has less diverse content generally than filehosting, other P2P or Usenet but that’s another story.
Before you start insulting the scene you better realise that they supply something, consistently, that no other entity does and that the scene is at the top of the piracy pyramid. As I said, most content on P2P originates from the scene and there is no structure to provide the incentive for P2P based groups to get anywhere near changing this.
P2P is P2P, scene is scene – however The Scene is a systemised and standardised piracy platform that promotes security, quality and all content possible through standards and competition. P2P is an uncontrolled mess that is open to anybody, unsecure and relies on The Scene for most of it’s content that is worth having.
fxg team is back and they are going to rain supreme soon! this should be top 10 movies downloaded from fxg.
FXG are P2P and really pretty bad quality as well.
well said Anonymous
lulz scene can eat shit and die, long live P2P groups who share their stuff with all and don’t hide in a corner. I barely download scene shit now, their standards are so dated.
used bittorrent before there were any clients so you people talking about proper this scene that is showing your yellowness, all i know is when downloading i would much rather have a proper version who gives a shit what it means, rather its game rip, xvid, bd, x234, proper to me just for 99% of the time means working or better, when you got bit torrent the picture from the kid in a desk who engineered it from CALI was on your desktop while you downloaded and hope you didnt lose connection because you had to start all over again. first i had to que and save progress was Y.A.B.T.C. wrap your young eyesies around that
“lulz scene can eat shit and die, long live P2P groups who share their stuff with all and don’t hide in a corner. I barely download scene shit now, their standards are so dated.”
I guess you download very little then – you know, seeing as there’s a handful of p2p groups that release stuff of comparable quality and only in a very narrow range of content. And that’s only movies and TV, good luck with apps and games LOL. I also guess you don’t know jack about warez standards seeing as they are updated reguarly as needed, the last Xvid standards was updated late last year and x264 only a month ago.
Those dated standards, who needs ‘em huh? Have fun with your standardless, low quality guessing game that is the p2p group scene. I guess you think aXXo is pretty good then lol.
“used bittorrent before there were any clients so you people talking about proper this scene that is showing your yellowness, all i know is when downloading i would much rather have a proper version who gives a shit what it means, rather its game rip, xvid, bd, x234, proper to me just for 99% of the time means working or better, when you got bit torrent the picture from the kid in a desk who engineered it from CALI was on your desktop while you downloaded and hope you didnt lose connection because you had to start all over again. first i had to que and save progress was Y.A.B.T.C. wrap your young eyesies around that”
You’ve used BT for that long and still don’t know how scene naming works or how to download scene content that is high quality first time, everytime? I guess you fail at being a pirate then – enjoy not getting high quality files every time you download. Also have fun downloading the same file multiple times or settling for low quality.
Oh and BTW, just so you know – The Scene predates Bittorrent by about 15 years.
“i would much rather have a proper version who gives a shit what it means, rather its game rip, xvid, bd, x234, proper to me just for 99% of the time means working or better”
LOL, seriously, is this guy for real? He’s “been doing this for years” yet he doesn’t know the most basic things such as how to look up a release for nuke info (protip: preDB), doesn’t know that PROPER does not equal better necessarily – (protip: it can still have flaws). It’s amazing how people insist upon espousing their views and at teh same time rubbishing what other people tell them. The newbs who are curious (ie. the smart ones without the whole head up the a** thing going on) will take note and will be all the better for it as they learn these simple staples of organised piracy: never again will they download a dud release, a low quality release, a release with technical flaws.
The guys who “have been doing it for years and know it all man” and yet somehow still don’t know what common scene tags indicate or what a preDB is will continue to flounder around with downloading bad releases and P2P releases made by amatuers. Protip: the smart ones who learn a little will never download a bad release again and will move onto private trackers with direct scene feeds anyhow as that’s where smart people end up – it’s just better, you don’t know how much better until you get there.
So many goddam “experienced” (yet somehow acting like total newbs still lol) pirates here who need to LRN2PIRATE. Oh sure, hang on to your quaint ideas of “the scene is so s**t because they aren’t public so I wont touch it” … right lol – 99% of new content on p2p comes from the scene. Your silly ideals don’t alter the fact that having a system that is ruleless and open to anybody means no quality control is possible and no structure exists for organised piracy. This is WHY 99% of content originates in teh scene – controls by authority and measurable competition mean everything possible is released and it is all at the same high standard. Public P2P has no organisation or safeguards (malware and fakes anyone?)
And to top it all off they seem to have a problem with the scene which is where 99% of their new content originates.
doesnt take rocket science to look at screens or samples,or even trustful reviews,even without being some know this know that geek. I still manage to get the best releases of everything released, and will continue to do so,regardless of my geekdom
never do Peer to Peer Shite and never have, always Private sites since a Private was invented. sorry i still get the best quality dowlnload just know what to to look for and know who released it,also sorry you idiots had to but i didnt have to sacrifice my weekends learning this “i dont have a girlfriend shite with my blowup doll” and still manage to get best highest quality primo stuff.any release you have I have downloaded or uploaded a better one,500meg 1gig fiber all the way bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Legion was awful, how is that even up there?
http://www.tipst3r.com
always such fun reading this top10 post, can always count on some p2p vs scene battle hehe
anyways just wanted to add to those that think p2p groups are better then scene ones, then if you didn’t know it but ALOT of p2p group releases are just renames of scene group releases (or re-encodes) and very often when quality is dvd-like (but not dvd) the p2p groups will tag it as a dvdrip
most notable group (or person) doing this is MAXSPEED, wouldn’t dl anything from them ever
6.7 average
enjoy your garbage, movie fans
8 references to this post
Responses are closed
All remaining responses will continue to be archived. Use the TorrentFreak forums if you want to discuss something.