{"id":11690,"date":"2010-03-07T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T18:26:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-03-07T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T18:26:00","slug":"piracy-oscar-winner-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/11690-piracy-oscar-winner-named.html","title":{"rendered":"Piracy Oscar winner named"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday night the biggest names in the movie industry converged on the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles for the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars.  The event honors the best performances and moviemaking over the last year.<\/p>\n

TorrentFreak has however announced its own award – the BitTorent Oscar for the most downloaded movie among the list of best picture nominees. <\/p>\n

According to TorrentFreak the South African based District 9 is the winner according to number of downloads, followed by Avatar and The Hurt Locker.<\/p>\n

The following table provides an overview of the most downloaded Oscar nominated movies of the last 12 months.<\/p>\n

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Movie<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n
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Downloads<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Source: Torrentfreak.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n
1<\/strong><\/td>\nDistrict 9<\/td>\n12,639,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/strong><\/td>\nAvatar<\/td>\n11,326,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Hurt Locker<\/td>\n7,930,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/strong><\/td>\nUp<\/td>\n5,437,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/strong><\/td>\nInglourious Basterds<\/td>\n5,376,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/strong><\/td>\nPrecious<\/td>\n4,922,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/strong><\/td>\nUp In The Air<\/td>\n4,855,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/strong><\/td>\nA Serious Man<\/td>\n3,836,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/strong><\/td>\nThe Blind Side<\/td>\n1,845,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/strong><\/td>\nAn Education<\/td>\n683,000<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

BitTorrent most downloaded movie<\/strong><\/a> << discussion<\/p>\n

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The BitTorrent Oscar, given to the Oscar nominated movie which was pirated the most, is announced by TorrentFreak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}