TPB launches OscarTorrents
After looking for it own country to place its Pirate land (server and citizen), the Pirates Bay start new project hit Holly Wood film by launching OscarTorrents. From the new site statement:
OscarTorrents is the Oscars as it should be — everyone can download the year’s nominations using the popular BitTorrent service, watch the movies, then use our rating system to choose their favourites. Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?
Downloading
To download any film up for an Oscar this year, you’ll need three things: an internet connection, a computer, and a BitTorrent client. The official Bittorrent client is here, or Azureus, a larger but more feature-laden client, is here. Install your software, then click on any of the download links next to the films. There’s a guide to downloading with BitTorrent here. Let us know if there seems to be anything wrong with a particular Torrent and we’ll try to fix it.
Voting
Once you’ve watched a film, you can vote on it — but please, do watch before you vote! On Oscars night, we’ll post your results right along with the ‘official’ ones. Of course this is the way it should be done now that movie distribution is almost free. Hollywoodland might not like it, but some people always have to be dragged kicking and screaming into the future.
The Future
If the Oscars nominations don’t interest you much (though we think this was a great year for movies and there’s some good films to watch here) hop on over to The Torrent Review. It’s like Digg for Torrents: you can read reviews about interesting movies that have recently been shared on all sorts of trackers, rate and comment others’ reviews, or add your own.
‘Legal’ Note
To those worried about downloading in case they get sued: by our calculations, your chances of getting nailed are way less than your chances of winning the lottery. Don’t think twice about it.
Well done, but what’s about MPAA?