Oscar for Most BitTorrented Movie – District 9

Okay. We realize that there is no such category in the Academy Awards, but in these modern times, where movies could find themselves on the Internet even before they are officially released in the theater, perhaps there should be.

Filesharing and BitTorrent blog, TorrentFreak, put together a list of the most illegally downloaded Oscar “Best Picture” nominee films for 2010 counting each BitTorrent download  as one vote. According to TorrentFreak, the data was compiled from several BitTorrent tracking services counting all versions of each film, including those taken with video cameras, and the numbers were compiled while checking for inaccuracies.

Total Downloads – District 9 – 12,639,000

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Posted by Saurabh on Mar 8 2010. Filed under Entertainment. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry