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torrentfreak.com — The top 10 most downloaded movies on BitTorrent, “The Dark Knight” tops the chart for the third week in a row already. the dark knightAs we reported earlier, The Dark Knight is on its way to become the most pirated movie of 2008, crushing Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Transformers.

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  • bennyshoham, on 12/01/2008, -2/+12the dark knightAs we reported earlier, The Dark Knight is on its way to become the most pirated movie of 2008
    • mk3k, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1I'll do my part. Will you help save the children too?
    • prophetpimp, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4I went for it in the theater so they already have my money.
  • Relaxxation, on 12/01/2008, -5/+42Pirated?! I call it an off-site backup just in case the internet goes down. ;-) j/k
    Buy the movies people.
    • BoonTobias, on 12/01/2008, -1/+18nolan deserves a better class of pirates
      • SenorBudd, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2He will if he ships the DVDs via boat near Somalia's coast.
      • ThatNuttyPeej, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1...and I'm gonna give it to him.
    • daridave, on 12/02/2008, -0/+2You're more right than you think. I buy many DVD movies, and sometimes I even download DivX version of the movies I own. Why? Because it's faster to click the movie I want to watch out of my hard drive and I have better control on it (timeline-wise), while the quality is very enjoyable. I guess I could rip my own movies, but I'm just lazy ... plus when I did it, the quality was always lower and the file size bigger, so I'm happy for movies on BitTorrent -- even those I own. There's also the fact that it's VERY ANNOYING when "Disc 3 of Season 4" of my favorite TV show ends being scratched -- I can't do a damn thing about it, and if I want a new one, I have to buy the whole season over -- and it ain't cheap! So "off-site backup" isn't that far from what they really are!
  • lovemorgul, on 12/01/2008, -7/+11The Dark Knight is the best movie on this list ;)
    • nikolak, on 12/01/2008, -12/+10I ***** hate that movie...
      • borez, on 12/01/2008, -10/+10Totally agree with you there mate, I thought it was ***** and I don't care if I get Dugg down for saying so.
    • limbclock, on 12/01/2008, -1/+10I dunno, i thought that Dark Knight was enjoyable piece of action, that didn't undermine the character of Batman, but I prefer Tropic Thunder more, simply because of it's ridicilous setting. And it has Tom Cruise in a fatsuit.
    • filovirus, on 12/01/2008, -1/+11The movie was excellent but could have been even better if Christian Bale would have taken the ***** out of his mouth when he tried to disguise his Batman voice.
    • solid12345, on 12/01/2008, -1/+7Oh please, Wall-E had more heart in it.
      • Anand999, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2After having seen both of them, I would have to agree that Wall-E was the better movie. I watched TDK again recently and it just wasn't as interesting or engaging the second time around. Wall-E, on the other hand, kept getting better on the 2nd or 3rd viewing.
      • ipodman715, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1meh, I thought last year's ratatouille was better
    • SenorBudd, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1It tops most lists that don't include The Godfather or Pulp Fiction.
      ;)
    • bdbElysian, on 12/08/2008, -0/+1Never watched The Dark Knight in theaters. I watched a good quality pirated copy at a buddies house.

      Absolutely fantastic movie IMO and it's earned my money. I'll have a wide screen DVD as soon as I have all my Christmas shopping for everyone else.
  • raphael7, on 12/01/2008, -6/+2I've been waiting forever for this game, it should be here THIS Christmas
  • ohnoerino, on 12/01/2008, -2/+6The Dark Knight tops the list?! No! I refuse to believe it.
  • Zippo, on 12/01/2008, -1/+8I wonder what the stats of pirated movies are for HD vs. SD? These days, I find myself more likely to buy a Blu-Ray disc than pirate it... especially when you're typical HD rip is 8 or more gigs... I just don't have the hard drive space to hold a ton of HD movies... nor the patience to wait several days for it to download.
    • RealHyperX, on 12/01/2008, -1/+5Whats wrong with HD divx format?
      • RealHyperX, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3lib - You do not know what DIVX is do you? You know like XVID in the open source world?
      • RealHyperX, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1I dunno, looking at PirateBay, or EZTV, like 20,000 + people at any given time. And I know what x264 is, bandwidth hog.
    • limbclock, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Well, my brother tried to play some HD DivX format with VLC, and he said that the movie played ok, but if you did ANYTHING ELSE, the movie would start to get choppy etc. I think that it's mainly about the computer horsepowers.
      • Anand999, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2My old Athlon 64 3200+ can't playback the 1080P version of TDK floating around the BitTorrent sites. I either have to drop massive amounts of frames or let the audio get horribly out of sync after just a few seconds. The computer can playback 720P content fine although I think I see about 70-80% CPU utilization.

        Anyone know what the cheapest CPU on the market today is that can successfully play back 1080P content?
      • Qumahlin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2I wouldn't worry about your CPU, pretty soon the codecs and hardware will be included on video boards just like what happened with original DVD and everything will be offloaded to that chip.
    • filovirus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2This PS3 AVC HD codec with 1080P + AC3 is interesting. The only downside is that The Dark Knight is 16GB to download.
      • mleh, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1ESiR's release is 14gb for the 1080p version, not 16gb.
    • DteK, on 12/01/2008, -1/+10TB drives + Verizon Fios FTW!
      • newdigger, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3Yup, 1080p version only took 3 hours to DL.
      • solidus636, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Lucky mother *****. Verizon FioS really needs to come to more apartment buildings...
    • Zippo, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Problem is that a lot of movies these days are packaged in an MKV format... and while MKV is great, my PS3 won't play it.
      And re-encoding that something big is a huge pain the ass. And when you want to retain quality, you want avoid re-encoding it anyways.
      • newdigger, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1Better get used to it. MKV is THE container of choice for HD video being shared on the internet, just like AVI was for DVD.
      • solidus636, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1If you want a quick way to convert HD movies with the MKV container, use the application called GoTSent.

        1 or 2 hours, your file is converted to MP4, and works flawlessly on a PS3. I've done is numerous times with Iron Man, 300, and a bunch of other movies and they've all looked great on my PS3.
  • ePuck, on 12/01/2008, -1/+4I've been waiting forever for this article.
    • DyceFreak, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2yea ever since the last time it was posted its like,
      "Screw it this time around, I'll get it next time."
  • seanmx, on 12/01/2008, -0/+20these lists are stupid. Its more like, the top 10 available movies on bit torrent.
    • Qumahlin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Exactly. The only reason "House Bunny" is on there is because its a new release. You would also be amazed at the amount of people who download the latest releases purely just to seed them.
      • GarrettGrimsley, on 12/02/2008, -0/+1I do that just to get my ratio up.
  • Dagreenman, on 12/01/2008, -2/+3the one movie that actually deserves a purchase. You wanna pirate something, download wanted. Great movie, but not purchase worthy.
  • borez, on 12/01/2008, -1/+6We did this the other day:

    http://torrentfreak.com/top-10-most-pirated-movies ...
  • limbclock, on 12/01/2008, -0/+0Should i be concerned that 2 of the movies on the list have Seth Rogen in them?
    • Fhwqhgads, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1very
      • rabidlemur, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2The internet has a man crush on him, they are all bi curious chubby chasers it seems.
  • bhuntsbarger, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1That means they are easy to get eh?
  • AtomicTheory, on 12/01/2008, -1/+251 The Dark Knight
    2 Tropic Thunder
    3 Pineapple Express
    4 Zack and Miri Make a Porno
    5 Quantum of Solace
    6 The House Bunny
    7 Max Payne
    8 WALL-E
    9 Step Brothers
    10 Traitor
    • forcedfx, on 12/01/2008, -5/+5Tropic Thunder was terrible. It's the only movie I've turned off before it ended.
      • snurfle, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1...So you never saw "Black Ops" or "The Number 23" or "Zardoz"
        Those will definitely up your tally of 'Movies turned off before the ending'!
      • SenorBudd, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1I *****' loved that movie.
      • Qumahlin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2I disagree, Tropic Thunder was slightly above average for the type of movie it was. It did get ***** during the middle at times, but overall not a horrible flick.

        May Payne on the other hand is absolute garbage and House Bunny is only on there because its a new release.
      • ToonPang, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Uh oh. You just went full retard.
  • ChineseDemocrat, on 12/01/2008, -8/+1wow !
    This is CINEMA ! This is art !!
    Dark Knight ! Tropic Thunder !!!
    People are really "connaisseurs" of cinema !
    For a minute i was afraid to see the same old blockbusters and big budget movies with superstar !! i am glad the internet crowd is more inclined to discover smaller foreign movies with substance such as QUANTUM SOLACE !!!!
    • specialK16, on 12/01/2008, -0/+3.What the hell is QUANTUM SOLACE?
    • Bojanglesmn, on 12/01/2008, -0/+4Can you dumb that down a little for me? Your dialect is so cultured and refined, my hillbilly assed self can barely understand you.
  • musntSurfatWork, on 12/01/2008, -4/+0Without reading the list, I enjoyed Changeling (Angelina Jolie she's hot, even when she loses a child), Felon (Val Kilmers' cool) Transporter3 (I have a weakness for Ukranian redheads), The legend of the seeker TV episodes to name a few...
  • mywhitenoise, on 12/01/2008, -2/+2How the ***** does THIS get a dupe? Shouldn't have made it to the front page the first time.
  • MrFurious2k, on 12/01/2008, -2/+3What this calls for is even more copy protection and an increase in prices. I'm sure that will stop piracy because it's been doing a bang-up job thus far.
  • filovirus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2So much for BRD security being iron-clad.
  • scot333, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1Im trying to find "Australia" because my girlfriend want to see it and I don't want to spend money on it. Help me digg!
    • GreatSunJester, on 12/01/2008, -0/+13OK -- grab a globe. Ready..... Rotate it so you can see the bottom half, now spin it till you see the big, somewhat island-shaped, landmass. Australia.
  • filovirus, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Grrrrrrr.
  • oda1, on 12/01/2008, -1/+2Why do we need an article about this? Just go to thepiratebay.org and click 'top 100' then movies.
    • Qumahlin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Actually is easier to click movies then sort by seeders :)
  • oda1, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Here's as good a place as any to ask ... regarding Pineapple express. I read it cost 25 million to make (they wanted 50, though)
    why? it was basically a couple of explosions, a car chase, and some fake weed.
  • thealsir, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1I think the fact that the Dark Knight is one of the largest-grossing movies of all time while at the same time being one of the most pirated movies of all time shows that most of the people who pirate movies wouldn't have paid for it anyway.
    • mleh, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Or maybe they watched it in the theater and then downloaded it later.
    • Qumahlin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1or they actually pirated it and paid for it. There are a great deal of people who do spend money for a nice DVD case, etc when its well deserved.

  • vivvivtzz, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Anna Faris was smoking hot in the House Bunny..with all her augmentations.
    • WELLDOITLIVE, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1She's nasty now, completely ruined her body.
  • Greenbow, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2Those are the Top 10 Most Pirated No-P0rn movies.
  • Kahnza, on 12/01/2008, -2/+1lol I've downloaded 9 of them. Only one I didn't was House Bunny because it looked retarded.
    • mleh, on 12/01/2008, -1/+3Yes, because Tropic Thunder and Step Brothers both look like non-retarded films from such outstanding actors like Ben Stiller and Will Ferrell.
  • matt.rubin, on 12/01/2008, -0/+2its the ***** Catalina wine mixer
  • Finalreminder, on 12/01/2008, -1/+1Tropic Thunder sucked monkey balls
  • superjamie, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1Wow, I haven't seen one of these, haven't even heard of most.

    And I'm burying for inaccuracy. Easily the most pirated movies on BT are porn and animu.
  • fzammetti, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1The fact that there are people on this planet that voluntarily want to watch The House Bunny disturbs me in ways I cannot explain. And don't tell me its because Anna Faris is hot... she WAS hot, she's mildly attractive these days, but you know what, that's an argument that doesn't matter because even a top-notch babe can't make an absolute turd of a movie watchable.

    (No, I haven't seen it. I won't, I'll sooner pluck my eyes out with a spoon. And no, this doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about. I don't have to see the stinking turd in the next bathroom stall to know how nasty it is!)
  • Darkspam004, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1That's funny, billboard for our one-handed brothers.
  • antdude, on 12/01/2008, -0/+1How about the best movies from binary newsgroups?
  • ertdubs, on 12/02/2008, -0/+0yarrrrr, ye call yerself a pirate?!
  • xaxxon08, on 12/03/2008, -0/+0this series should have definitely made it to blu ray: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAVy2mHkavI
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