Feb 11 2007

OscarTorrents — new BitTorrent tracker site has all this years nominees

  • Written by soulxtc
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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 favorites. Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?”.

There’s a ingenious new site called OscarTorrents that conveniently links to all of this year’s Oscar nominees as well as incorporates a voting system so that users can vote for their picks in each category.

It lists each nominee by category and then provides their associated link on the pubic tracker site that contains the appropriate torrent.

From the site:

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 favorites. Why restrict the voting to a few bought-off jurors when the whole world can have their say?

Doesn’t get much better than that.

After you’ve viewed each nominee you’re encouraged to vote for whom you think best deserves to win an Oscar in that category.

The site continues:
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.

Each of the Oscar categories are listed, with each having its page that provides a brief description by title and then link to the torrent tracker so that you can download the title using BitTorrent.

Here are the links to the individual categories:

  • Actor in a Leading Role
  • Actor in a Supporting Role
  • Actress in a Leading Role
  • Actress in a Supporting Role
  • Animated Feature Film
  • Art Direction
  • Best Picture
  • Cinematography
  • Costume Design
  • Directing
  • Documentary Feature
  • Documentary Short
  • Film Editing
  • Foreign Language Film
  • Makeup
  • Music(score)
  • Music(song)
  • Short Film (Animated)
  • Short Filme (Live Action)
  • Sound Editing
  • Sound Mixing
  • Visual Effects
  • Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
  • Writing (Original Screenplay)
  • Downloading Oscar contenders have never been easier.

    CHECK OUT OSCARTORRENTS
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    Comments

    1. Jorge

      That is great stuff!

    2. kerjodando

      This is good. I tried to get sky anywhere movie download service to work last night (as I pay for the top Sky package) but I couldn’t because of the DRM refused to work. Oscar torrents is way better and no DRM. I would be willing to pay £45 for this for a month. I love the Oscars and this makes them even better.

    3. meyou123

      Ok I am confused. Is this site thumbing their nose at hollywood like TPB? As I guess this would be completely illegal in the US……

    4. Jorge

      Well they are not directly linking to any torrent files so they are not breaking any laws.

    5. meyou123

      Well what about sites like lokitorrents and others that got busted for having torrents on their site? They didn’t directly link to any file either that I am aware of. But they still got their sites taken down. Unless this site is in another country than the US I wouldn’t bet on them satying up long.

      Even then I hope they are in the same country that TPB is in.

    6. Jorge

      If you link directly to .torrent files and your servers are in the US trouble will find you.

    7. meyou123

      That is what I thought…so that means that this site MUST be out of US jurisdiction……

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