Yesterday there was a controversial movie torrent that was getting 1000s of downloads and was on the “popular this week” page, and today it’s just gone. I went to the uploader’s account page and it’s not there either. Just like it never existed.

I’m SUPER curious of the story behind what happened. Did the uploader take it down? 1337? Why?

EDIT: The movie was Lady Ballers 2023 (wasn’t sure if I was allowed to say) I did a little more research, and I think the copy the uploader put out was YTS but I don’t think they were affiliated with them. Maybe YTS told them to take it down? The movie is on their (YTS/YIFY’s) website.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1482·
    11 months ago

    Welp, out of curiosity, I read up on this movie. It’s way dumber than I expected from the title. It’s just ‘Ladybugs’ all over again.

    Edit: holy shit does this get worse and worse. It’s like a right-wing wet dream. The cast is literally nothing but hate-group aligned right-wing YouTube personalities lol.

    • Evkob@lemmy.caEnglish
      743·
      11 months ago

      They even have Ted Cruz in it (as himself).

      This nightmare world we live in would be hilarious if we didn’t have to, you know, live in it.

    • fsxylo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      293·
      11 months ago

      Lol, the more right wingers bitch about this the more I straight up want drag queens to actually do this.

      Let’s unironically make the strawman world right wingers are mad at so they can seethe.

    • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      Daily Wire? Yeah, no thanks.

      Tell me at least the main characters learn a heart-warming lesson at the end.

  • ScottLaRock@lemmy.worldEnglish
    212·
    11 months ago

    Mass reporting or personal politics of the admins probably. IPT on the other hand has it pinned as a Staff Pick lol

      • matey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        221·
        11 months ago

        IPTorrents, private tracker, not well regarded due to management but has lots of content

        • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
          55·
          11 months ago

          I would leave my laptop on 24/7 for years to make sure I seeded as much as possible on IPT. Then I wasn’t able to login or seed for a couple months and they locked my account. I went into their IRC to get it unlocked, and they said I should have logged in and could pay like $200 to get it unlocked. At the time I didn’t even have that much money in my account. I tried to reason with them, about how much I’ve uploaded and loved the site, and without a second response they just muted me and after a PM trying to talk to the guy they kicked and banned me from the IRC.

          FUCK IPTorrents.

          • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
            32·
            11 months ago

            Are you using something else? I’m on IPT, never had any issues, but I’m willing to move.

            • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
              6·
              11 months ago

              No I got a better job after that and pretty much only pirate popular stuff that shows on 1337x, TPB, or TorrentGalaxy. I used to pirate mostly software but because of the increasing risk of ransomware and FUD rootkit botnets, I’d rather just pay $30 for it. I’ll still pirate something and run it in a VM if I /really/ need to and it’s $1,000 and I’m going to use it 5 times, but I usually just buy software now.

              I’ll probably get a seedbox setup and run Plex for media soon, in which case I’ll just use open trackers or find some non-IPT private tracker.

              • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
                1·
                11 months ago

                Yeah, I don’t pirate software, but I’d prefer to stick to private trackers, even though i’m tempted to look at stuff like radarr and sonarr that use public trackers too, just for convenience.

                • Cinner@lemmy.worldBEnglish
                  5·
                  11 months ago

                  The only difference between public and private trackers is availability and quality. You should have a VPN always enabled (through the closest locale if you like, for speed) or a seedbox which is even better than a VPN. If public trackers have what you want, there’s zero reason not to use them.

                  When I was back on IPT, I found one of the top software uploaders binding a fully undetectable backdoor downloader to his downloads. Never in the installer or anything, always bound to the main software file and could be unbound after install and activation. Always showed 0/50 on virustotal etc. Since I was somewhat into malware analysis at the time, I tried to do some analysis on it but of course it would detect my analysis of it and just not run. Whereas if I ran the software on an old PC, it would do it’s thing and I could detect it after the fact, but still not get very far.

                  I used a lot of software from that guy previously. Who knows what keys to the kingdom he has.

    • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      232·
      11 months ago

      Right. Out of morbid curiosity…. I want to know. Knowing that it will be a disappointing answer.

      A controversial movie…

      The hell? CP, extreme political viewpoint; see now my mind is wondering. “Guess who’s coming to Dinner “? Controversial in its era —

      Oh I’ll bet it’s the Mormon Temple ceremony. lol

      • oldGregg@lemm.eeEnglish
        302·
        11 months ago

        Ah so it’s like a less funny version of “The Ringer”

        but instead of cheating at the special Olympics by pretending to be retarded, they cheat in women’s sports by pretending to be trans.

  • Hubi@feddit.deEnglish
    6·
    11 months ago

    It was probably the content moderators if it was a controversial movie like you said. There’s not really a way to find out what happened unless you contact the admins.

  • lorez@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.