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.

  • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    43·
    11 months ago

    I said fairly based. The commenters preoccupation with the fascism connection was odd but the rest was pretty much on point for presenting a theory as to why the torrent had been removed and re-added. The commenter added additional commentary to present a parallel for what the torrent uploader was doing in order to obtain more public interest.

    In reference to your last line, you realize that the vast majority of the political sector is financially vested in ‘taking action’ against piracy, right? And by financially vested I obviously mean bribed by corps like MGM or UMG et al.

    • Night Monkey@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      314·
      11 months ago

      I guess when I browsed a piracy board,I wasn’t really expecting a psychotic rant about Trump and other political shit. I don’t mind reading about some current court cases involving some piracy news and whatnot.

      The Internet is saturated with orange man bashing and today’s current outrage bait. I’m bored of it. It’s not even remotely interesting anymore. Apparently, judging by the upvotes that person got, I’m in the minority.

      • trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        I can understand where you’re coming from but it’s not like the commenter lied. Both musk and trump have court cases involving sexual assault in various countries and our adversaries are getting one over on us because of the incompetence of every politician, not just left or right.

        Perhaps I am seeing it in a different light but it sure seemed to me like billionaire and politician bashing as opposed to ‘orange man bashing’.

      • Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        11 months ago

        Aaw shaaaame. Now you’re the victim after attacking someone else and calling them “psychotic”.

        Lol.

        You refuse to address their points deferring rather to a strategy of misdirecting using the name of the community. Any meat on your “psychotic rant” assertion? Nope. “This is a piracy board” …so you can dismiss thoughtful commentary on the topic that OOP has raised out of hand with nothing more than baseless accusations?

        You want to hide behind etiquette and staying on topic but your posts in this thread are the most worthless meta commentary in the thread.

          • Hyperreality@kbin.social
            1·
            11 months ago

            “Oh no. Someone tried to make a movie starring Ted Cruz political. I’m not too bored to discuss movies starring Ted Cruz. I am too bored to discuss criticism of said movies or the far right’s tendency to claim victimhood.”

            Sarte:

            If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.