Transformers most pirated 2007 movie
p2pnet news | TV:- TV-shows trumped movies as the most popular files on BitTorrent sites.
On Mininova alone, “some episodes are downloaded more than 2 million times,” says TorrentFreak, going on:
” Movies are a good second, with over 500.000 downloads for the most popular titles.”
Transformers was the most downloaded movie, with Heroes Number One on the TV list.
Data were provided by Mininova and are, “considered to be a representative sample,” says TorrentFreak, also pointing out that the actual download count is much higher because there are, “often more torrents for the same file, and there are more BitTorrent sites of course”.
Transformers was also a more than just the most downloaded movie.
It was also and in which Jhannet Sejas and her boyfriend were celebrating her 19th birthday at a matinee showing of the flick.
Sejas decided to film a short clip to get her little brother, 13, hyped to go see it and, “Minutes later, two Arlington County police officers were pointing their flashlights at the young couple in the darkened theater and ordering them out.
“They confiscated the digital camera as evidence and charged Sejas, a Marymount University sophomore and Annandale resident, with a crime: illegally recording a motion picture.”
Meanwhile, here are the Top Ten movies and TV shows.
Movies
| Ranking | Movie (downloads on Mininova) |
| 1 | Transformers (569.259) |
| 2 | Knocked Up (509.314) |
| 3 | Shooter (399.960) |
| 4 | Pirates Of The.Caribbean At World’s End (379.749) |
| 5 | Ratatouille (359.904) |
| 6 | 300 (358.226) |
| 7 | Next (354.044) |
| 8 | Hot Fuzz (352.905) |
| 9 | The Bourne Ultimatum (336.326) |
| 10 | Zodiac (334.699) |
TV-Shows
| Ranking | TV-Shows (downloads most popular episode on Mininova) |
| 1 | Heroes (2.439.154) |
| 2 | Top Gear (1.217.923) |
| 3 | Battlestar Galactica (706.209) |
| 4 | Lost (705.724) |
| 5 | Prison Break (608.487) |
| 6 | Desperate Housewives (457.805) |
| 7 | 24 (524.303) |
| 8 | Family Guy (522.839) |
| 9 | Dexter (435.670) |
| 10 | Scrubs (427.420) |
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Also see:
TorrentFreak – Top 10 Most Pirated Movies and TV Shows of 2007, January 1, 2008
central to a scandal – Girl nailed for 20-second video clip, August 2, 2007
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January 2nd, 2008 at 9:25 am
Now post the dvd and box office sales.
January 2nd, 2008 at 9:28 am
Sejas decided to film a short clip to get her little brother, 13, hyped to go see it and, “Minutes later, two Arlington County police officers were pointing their flashlights at the young couple in the darkened theater and ordering them out.
“They confiscated the digital camera as evidence and charged Sejas, a Marymount University sophomore and Annandale resident, with a crime: illegally recording a motion picture.”
Ah yes, I had forgotten about that incident.
If I said what I really felt towards these officers, this post would be deleted.
January 2nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
although they say it is a “representative sample”, it’s hardly representative or even close to accurate.
the stats from mininova only show how many times the torrent file was downloaded on mininova. it does not show any stats for any completed downloads of the video.
even the stats for seed and leech are not up-to-date, either because their system doesn’t update them for 24 hours at a time, or because the tracker the torrent is registered with doesn’t allow scraping and after some time is removed because their system considers it to be dead.
either way, it’s not at all a fair sample of how many times the video file has been downloaded completely. the stats on mininova have nothing to do with that info.
i’ve had some of my own torrent files removed by mininova mods for unfounded and erroneous complaints, only to have to wait for hours for a mod on irc or a day or two to get in touch with one in the forumst o find out what the problem is and then submit the torrent again – and explaining that my files are not against their rules asking to be unbanned from their upload page.
i use trackers that do allow scraping by mininova. one file i’ve had to submit more than once has actually been completed more than 21, 000 times although mininova only shows that from their website the torrent file has been downloaded only 15,000 times – in its current third or fourth submission. before that it (the torrent file) had been grabbed several thousand times from mininova.
plus, mine – as well as the majority of torrents – are posted on other listing sites and message boards.
the only way i know how to see exactly how many times a file has been downloaded is by putting the torrent into the torrentspy application and checking the stats there. but again, if the tracker doesn’t allow scraping it might not register in torrentspy.
so to have a fair, representative sample one needs to at least use an application that does show how many completes the torrent registered. merely knowing how many times a torrent file is grabbed from a particular website doesn’t represent anything other than that.
companies such as BigChampagne that do monitor torrent traffic have a more accurate and representative “sample” of what’s happening. perhaps they would show that Transformers and Heroes were actually downloaded ten times more often than the stats provided by mininova.
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Am I the only one surprised that the current most downloaded film wasn’t a pornographic title?
January 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 pm
I suppose porn doesn’t appeal to as wide an audience as transformers.. believe it or not!
January 3rd, 2008 at 4:21 am
these stats come from mininova. if you know anything about mininova, you’ll know they don’t allow porn torrents.