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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[–] 147 points 2 years ago* (6 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.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years 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.

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  • [–] 109 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    The uploader deleted it so their drones can make social media posts claiming it was censored to generate more buzz and make sure everyone knows it exists.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (18 children)

    Yep. Claim victimhood. Fascism 101.

    Fascists are boring. It's the same strategy for almost a hundred years. Orwell on Hitler:

    It is a pathetic, dog-like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial, personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at; but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim, Prometheus chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can’t win, and yet that he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films that one sees turn upon some such theme.

    Today's mice are an incredibly marginalised and incredibly small sexual minority. But fascists will pretend they're not, that they're part of the elite trying to cause degeneracy. Not billionaire rapists like Musk or Trump.

    Not as if fascists are going to actually fix the big shit, like the economy, the environment, or affordable housing. Not as if they're going to stand up to the countries actually threatening western values, like Russia or China. No. Now they've decided it's some nobody in the arse end of America, who feels happier wearing a dress.

    People who fall for that shit are morons. Not that most fascists actually believe their own bullshit. They just do it shock and disconcert people, and because they hate those they perceive weaker than them. Just like their Dear Leader considers them scum, has regularly said he is disgusted by them, because they're so weak that they've chosen to lick his boots.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

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

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  • [–] [B] 55 points 2 years ago* (5 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.

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    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

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  • [–] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    EDIT: The movie was Lady Ballers 2023

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago* (3 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.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Meh, Southpark already did it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Why don't you name the movie?

    Edit: OP did

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years 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.

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    [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Forget about the history. What "controversial movie" are we talking about?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

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

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Probably uploading viruses

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