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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.

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[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 146 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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.ca 71 points 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.

[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

Gross, Shapiro is in it. Just go watch ladybugs, at least it had the kid from Seaquest.

[–] fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 26 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 15 points 11 months ago

Daily Wire? Yeah, no thanks.

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

[–] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Lol, streaming on DailyWire+. Not even straight to DVD.

[–] ScottLaRock@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 15 points 11 months ago

Bleh, didn't know IPT was run by chuds.

[–] nouman@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] matey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 55 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.pub 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] Cinner@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.pub 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.world 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] SchizoDenji@lemm.ee 6 points 11 months ago

TorrentLeech

[–] Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

If they have this shit movie pinned then that tracks

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] satanmat@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] kuso1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The movie was Lady Ballers 2023

[–] kuso1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

EDIT: The movie was Lady Ballers 2023

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 28 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Meh, Southpark already did it.

[–] evranch@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Futurama did it too. Though I remember it being actually funny, without all the associated culture war baggage.

More of a commentary on Bender's poor impulse control and minimal ethics than on society I would say

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, they were definitely ahead of their time when it came to social issues

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No way, did Ben Sharpie actually make Divarsity?

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 11 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Divarsity

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Why don't you name the movie?

Edit: OP did

[–] teft@startrek.website 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
[–] WarmApplePieShrek@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 11 months ago

I think triggered snowflake fascists are the only people who still use those rating sites. Then, they the user ratings (which they rigged) don't match the staff ratings.

[–] kuso1@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago

EDIT: The movie was Lady Ballers 2023

[–] Hubi@feddit.de 6 points 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.ee 4 points 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.

[–] MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Probably uploading viruses