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It's not just TV shows that pirates love, movies have always been quite popular. In the past week, a couple of new movies (new to BitTorrent) made their debut in the first two spots in the BitTorrent top 10 curated by TorrentFreak.
John Carter took the first place as the most downloaded movie in the week ending... |
21 May 2012
14:31 GMT |
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While there are plenty of people out to stop them, pirates don't seem too bothered. For all its attempts, all of Hollywood's latest flicks end up on BitTorrent and are quickly snatched up by movie-loving pirates. 21 Jump Street was the most popular movie on BitTorrent last week, aka the most downloaded. Th... |
14 May 2012
10:30 GMT |
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It seems that even pirates tire of the same old movies after a while as this week's top 10 most downloaded movies has three new entries, two of which sit at the top two spots. This Means War is the most downloaded movie on BitTorrent in the week ending May 6th.
The movie proved very popular as it shot up to the... |
7 May 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be the first title in the series that is not linked to any movie release and the development team behind it believes that the game can succeed as long as it promotes the tone seen in the initial trailer, revealed during the VGA ceremony.
Greg Agius, the marketing manager working ... |
7 May 2012
14:51 GMT |
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The latest Sherlock Holmes installment, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, has become a pirate favorite in recent weeks and shows no signs of becoming any less popular soon.
The movie entered the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak, three weeks ago at number three.
A week late... |
30 April 2012
16:01 GMT |
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Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol can't be budged from the top spot in the illustrious top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, but that doesn't mean things are static across the board. Four new entries made it to the top 10 this week, one proving so desirable that users put up with an inferior tele... |
10 April 2012
15:51 GMT |
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Pirates are as enamoured with the latest Mission: Impossible flick as they have been in recent weeks, but a few new movies have made it to the top 10 most downloaded on BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak.
The Hunger Games, the already popular movie released this weekend, based on the popular book series, debute... |
2 April 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Investigators at the Ohio State University (OSU) believe they may have found the reason why many people appear to enjoy watching tragic or dramatic movies and plays. Apparently, seeing others in misery, even if it's all a game of pretend, makes individuals more likely to appreciate what they have.Seeing sad stor... |
28 March 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The Electronic Retailing Association in the United Kingdom has announced that by its estimates video games have managed to generate total sales that are bigger than those created by movies and television shows. Video games are estimated to have sold 1.93 billion British Pounds (3.08 billion United States dollars or ... |
28 March 2012
02:21 GMT |
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Three new entries made it in this week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, but the top three remains virtually unchanged, apart from a small switch.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol sits at the very top for the second week in a row, after debuting in the previous week.
We Bought a Zoo, also a ... |
26 March 2012
14:21 GMT |
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Twitter may not be the greatest source for predicting box-office revenue, at least not on a reliable basis. Research done by several people from Princeton University showed that there is no tight correlation between Twitter sentiment and box-office revenue.
There was also no link between Oscar winners and how Twitte... |
26 March 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Via Inside iTunes, Apple is promoting one of the newly added abilities to download movies from your iCloud account.
“Movies have joined music, TV shows, books, and apps in iCloud, which means that iTunes movies are as easily re-watchable as your DVDs, even if you need to remove a movie from a device for awhile... |
20 March 2012
05:52 GMT |
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Last week hasn't been particularly eventful, when it comes to movie sector of BitTorrent. There are only two new entries in the top 10 most downloaded movies on the file-sharing network. Granted, one of the new entries shot in straight at number one.
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol made its debut on the po... |
19 March 2012
11:40 GMT |
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It seems that pirates are happy watching pretty much the same movies they watched in the previous week, as there are only two new entries in last week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent.
The Awakening, coming in straight at number two, a ghost story, is one of the new titles on the list, with the Osc... |
12 March 2012
06:37 GMT |
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It doesn't seem like the Oscar's make much of an impression with the average pirate. In the week following the Academy Awards, none of the big winners are in the top 10 most download movies over BitTorrent. There are a couple of Oscar winners in the top 10, but none of the big names, The Artist for example.... |
5 March 2012
15:01 GMT |
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VideoLAN Media Player, or just simply VLC, is a software designed to run all kinds of media files, ranging from simple DVDs, to video and audio files, and even online streams. It is a very popular choice for Linux users, and the new version just raised the bar. VLC stands for VideoLan Client and its developers are ga... |
28 February 2012
10:48 GMT |
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In the week leading up to the Oscars, movie pirates weren't really interested in the titles nominated, rather, they preferred the same old comedies or action flicks they would have had in any other week.
In fact, in the entire top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent of last week, Hugo was the only Oscar win... |
27 February 2012
16:21 GMT |
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Four new movies, new to BitTorrent at least, have made it to the top 10 most downloaded titles of last week. Most of the others on the list have only recently been made available, illegally of course, over BitTorrent. Surprising or not, the top movie of last week is Tower Heist, holding the top spot from the previou... |
20 February 2012
16:01 GMT |
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There are only three new entries in the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent last week, but they've all made it to the top five. Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy's Tower Heist shot in straight at number one.
The Three Musketeers, the previous week's number one was the second most popular movie on t... |
13 February 2012
13:31 GMT |
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Speaking at the DICE 2012 event, TJ Galda, a senior developer at Electronic Arts, suggested that video games should take television as their model and actually sell players chapters of story in order to keep them engaged with a story in the long term. The developers stated, “Call of Duty literally earned a bil... |
13 February 2012
10:38 GMT |
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David Fincher's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo entered straight at the top of the most downloaded movies over BitTorrent last week. The anticipated ecranisation of the very popular mystery and thriller novel, the US version as there has already been a Swedish version of the book, has proven quite popular with b... |
31 January 2012
10:03 GMT |
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It seems that new movies have been particularly attractive to pirates last week as five of the top 10 most downloaded movies, as compiled by TorrentFreak, are new entries, aka new movies to the BitTorrent network, not necessarily new releases. The top three spots are filled by new entries, Special Forces coming in a... |
23 January 2012
18:21 GMT |
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With 2012 well underway now, things are going back to normal for most people. Movie fans though, those that prefer the BitTorrent method of distribution, are gearing up for the Christmas blockbusters they didn't get to see yet.
In this week's top 10 downloaded movies over BitTorrent, covering the first wee... |
11 January 2012
14:21 GMT |
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With only a few days left in the year, it makes sense to look back and sum it all up. Everyone is looking into their own back yard as TorrentFreak did and it came up with a top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent this year. Fast Five took the number one spot, though its competitors were close by. The movie was d... |
28 December 2011
15:21 GMT |
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Christmas may or may not be the perfect time to watch movies, depending on what counts as tradition at your house, and the top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent of last week should paint an interesting picture of what people watched during the holidays.
A popular title for a few weeks now, The Inbetweeners Mov... |
27 December 2011
10:47 GMT |
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Three new entries have made it in this week's top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. At the same time, the top new entry of last week is now at the number one spot overall.Moneyball, Contagion and Pressed are the new titles which have been very popular with file-sharing movie aficionados/pirates. The chart... |
19 December 2011
11:01 GMT |
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The first full trailer of the upcoming Transformers: Fall of Cybertron debuted at the VGA ceremony during the past weekend but the developers decided that it was not enough for real fans of the robot based franchise and released another piece of video which goes behind the scenes and shows some of the developers talk... |
15 December 2011
12:11 GMT |
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Netflix, the service that allows you to instantly watch TV shows & movies, has been updated on the iOS platform with the release of a new application that supports all devices and all territories.Netflix 2.0 is now available in Latin America for iPhone and iPad, and features a new iPad UI for all regions - US, Canada... |
15 December 2011
08:00 GMT |
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The Inbetweeners Movie entered directly at the top spot of this week’s top 10 most downloaded movies over BitTorrent, as compiled by TorrentFreak.
The British comedy based on the TV series of the same name has proved rather popular in theaters and, considering the younger age of the average BitTorrent user, its popu... |
12 December 2011
14:41 GMT |
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It seems that BitTorrent fans were content watching the same movies they did last week, as the two most popular, i.e. downloaded, movies on the P2P network were the same, "Cowboys and Aliens" and "Conan the Barbarian."
Still, there's a newcomer at number three, the recently released "In Time" has been received ... |
5 December 2011
10:41 GMT |
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Right after releasing the controversial Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Activision has talked about the perception of video games in recent years, and how, through the voice of its publishing CEO, Eric Hirshberg, it hopes that they’ll soon be viewed in the same way as movies.The gaming industry has tried to evo... |
25 November 2011
03:12 GMT |
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Fewer new entries this week and "Conan the Barbarian" gets to keep the 'title' of the most downloaded movie via BitTorrent. Though the movie hasn't exactly gotten the best reviews, it seems to be a fan favorite, at least for the moment.
Three new entries are sprinkled among the top 10, "Cowboys and Al... |
21 November 2011
09:22 GMT |
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If there's one thing that the top downloaded movies over BitTorrent this week show is that pirates enjoy new stuff very much. Five titles in the top 10 are new entries.Movie lovers may notice that some of the new titles may not exactly be that 'new' since they've been released in theaters for mont... |
14 November 2011
08:48 GMT |
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Pirates may not like to pay for their content all that much, or maybe they just don't want to hassle with the few 'legal' alternatives they have, but they sure like movies.They have their standards as well, so any self respecting pirate will wait for a DVD rip to be available before firing up BitTorren... |
7 November 2011
11:10 GMT |
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IMDb has launched a brand new iPhone app called IMDb Buzz. It’s a free entertainment news application that works with all iDevices and offers daily updates about your favorite celebrities, movies, TV shows and news sources.The app lets you create a news feed tailored to match your interests, and you can share y... |
28 October 2011
14:51 GMT |
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Launched back in July for Android users living in Canada and United States, Google's movie rentals service has just been introduced in the UK. While in the United States users can rent movies starting at $1.99 (£1.3 or 1.45 EUR), those who want to rent movies in the UK will have to pay between £2.49 ... |
21 October 2011
08:00 GMT |
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It's obvious that movie studios don't love pirates. Well, they hate them actually and would do anything to get rid of the millions of freeloading pirates out there. But, pirates are people too, right? Just don't tell Hollywood that. And pirates love movies just like the rest of us, perhaps even mo... |
17 October 2011
10:51 GMT |
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For much of Hollywood's history, smoking has been a mainstay in movies. But investigators at the University of Bristol are now suggesting in a new study that the behavior depicted on the silver screen have a nefarious influence on teens, who become more likely to pick up the habit themselves.The research indicat... |
20 September 2011
04:55 GMT |
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YouTube has launched the rumored expanded movie rental service which now offers movies from major Hollywood studios, both current blockbusters as well as classics. 3,000 titles are now available from studios such as Universal, Sony Pictures and Warner Brothers. YouTube already had plenty of movies and TV shows for re... |
10 May 2011
06:00 GMT |
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Scientists are beginning to figure out that movies and video clips do not influence teens and young adults in absolute terms. In other words, watching movies with distressing or malicious content will not necessarily make a young person behave the same way, unless the context to do so is already there.The psychologic... |
5 February 2011
04:38 GMT |
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After the company events on January 19, we know that the Nintendo 3DS will be launching in North America on March 27 while Europe will be getting it two days earlier, for prices set around 249.99 dollars, but the leader of Nintendo of America was keen to emphasize that the new device was not just for the niche gamer ... |
25 January 2011
16:41 GMT |
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Hooked In Motion LLC, an iOS and Mac developer, has confirmed its first Mac App Store application. Dubbed “Movies”, the app will likely boast similar functionality to its iCollect Movies app for iOS devices.
iCollect Movies 4.0 is a new update to its movie cataloging and collecting application for iOS ... |
5 January 2011
10:55 GMT |
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According to a new study presented by a panel of scientists this month, it would appear that representing science in Hollywood blockbuster films might make for an efficient way of inspiring the next generation of physicists, mathematicians, IT experts and biologists to pick up science. The panel that made the present... |
29 December 2010
11:09 GMT |
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The actor Billy Bob Thornton has said that the current video game culture is to blame for the less than stellar output the public has recently seen from Hollywood, especially when talking about movies which are tackling the subject of violence.Thornton has said, “We're living in a time when we're maki... |
30 November 2010
02:48 GMT |
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Amazon hasn't shied away from surprising new businesses, unrelated to its core products, but its latest move is probably the most far fetched so far. The company is launching Amazon Studios a new portal for budding filmmakers and script writers."Amazon Studios, a new online business that invites filmmakers and s... |
17 November 2010
13:01 GMT |
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Ken Levine, the creative director working at Irrational Games and the creator of Bioshock and System Shock 2, has declared that the video game industry needs to limit the level of its infatuation with the Hollywood system and with movie directors coming in to work on games.Talking to the Develop magazine he stated, &... |
12 October 2010
16:41 GMT |
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Bobby Kotick, the Chief Executive Officer at Activision Blizzard, has suggested that publishers might be interesting in creating video games based movies that will be delivered to fans without the use of traditional media channels.Talking at the audience at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Media, Communicatio... |
17 September 2010
03:05 GMT |
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Valve, the company behind the digital distribution service Steam, has decided that any movie project based on its Half Life franchise would happen only if the people who worked on the video games would have full creative control of the way the movie is developed.Gabe Newell, the Chief Executive Officer and one of the... |
30 August 2010
05:10 GMT |
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A new report released by Ipsos MediaCT shows that video game buyers are more interested in owning a physical copy of their titles than those who purchase newspapers, music tracks or movies. The firm concluded that this means the video game market is more shielded from the current trend of abandoning the actual produc... |
7 July 2010
13:31 GMT |
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In a recent investigation, a group of researchers wanted to determine precisely what is it that makes the most well-known horror movies so popular with fans of the genre. The conclusions of the work are fairly interesting, the team says, given that the results have been known by filmmakers for many years. According t... |
28 May 2010
04:05 GMT |
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