1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die: Torrent Edition
January 08, 09 by sharky 16,070 views
Trendsetting PassThePopcorn is a movie tracker that’s doing things a little differently. Aside from having amassed an impressive 3,300 3,400 torrents running coolly on Gazelle, PTP is attempting to complete a collection based on Steven Jay Schneider’s popular book "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die". Staff and members alike are on a mission to fulfill the thousand-plus movie torrents that make up this remarkable collage, which has turned into quite the obsession around PTP.
The idea for "1001 Movies" isn’t entirely original, as What.cd already had their own collage version; similarly titled, "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" from the book of the same name. While What.cd has recently completed their collage and now possesses all 1,001 albums from the collection, PassThePopcorn is only at the half-way point. Currently, there’s 524 films that need to be added to an overall list of about 1,075 - and some will be tough to find. Older relics from the 1920’s have proven to be a challenge, and are thus still absent:
— The Phantom Carriage (1921)
— Dr. Mabuse, Parts 1 and 2 (1922)
— The Wheel (1923)
— Seven Chances (1925)
— The Unknown (1927)
— October (1927)
— Napoleon (1927)
— The Kid Brother (1927)
— The Crowd (1928)
— The Docks of New York (1928)
Presented chronologically, the current edition begins with Georges Méliès’ A Trip to the Moon in 1902 and concludes with Joe Wright’s 2007 film Atonement. As with the motif for PassThePopcorn torrents, each film in the collection includes a review(s), poster art, IMDb link & rating, and actor/character listing.
One interesting feature to Gazelle Collages (known as ‘Collections’ at PTP) is that every member can get involved in them.
PassThePopcorn: Invites
While open signups are currently closed, if you’re not already a member of PassThePopcorn, you can apply through their IRC channel below. You’re allowed as many interview attempts as needed to get your invite.
irc://irc.what.cd/passthepopcorn-invite.
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01 • defau2t Says: 08.01.09 at 5:27 pm
w00t
02 • spektormax (sysop) Says: 08.01.09 at 5:42 pm
Thanks for the post on FSF, We have many large collections 1001 Movies you should see before you die, IMDB top 250, and AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movies! So check out the site
03 • xj Says: 08.01.09 at 5:46 pm
omg I <3 this tracker so much!
I was staff and then I left so I now get my ratio changed like 2 months later to 250down and 5kb up for no reason, hm
what a great tracker, they pick on one user, me, kick, ban, kick from irc for no reason and then change ratios for no reason
great staff I <3 it
04 • mark Says: 08.01.09 at 5:57 pm
Oh stop bitching, and be grateful these great people are letting you in.
Thanks, hope i get an invite
05 • exclamation Says: 08.01.09 at 7:37 pm
Thanks for the article, come get an interview.
06 • Jesssay Says: 08.01.09 at 8:01 pm
@XJ
Maybe they “mistreat” you because you’r a fed
=p
07 • honeybunny Says: 08.01.09 at 8:05 pm
Hello.
First I want to thank you for the invite. I have just received it. I clicked on the registration link, but unfortunately, on Google Chrome it does not show the Captcha image. I have tried to load the page on Firefox, but I keep getting Network Timeout. Every other site loads instantly. Any idea?
08 • Sharky Says: 08.01.09 at 9:08 pm
EDIT - Wave 1 of invites have all been sent, I thank you all very much for the kind words about PassThePopcorn and FSF.
09 • Trackback :: Passthepopcorn invite - P2P - TechEnclave 08.01.09 at 9:48 pm
[...] PassThePopcorn: Invites Option 1 Additionally, I have been granted an unlimited supply of invites to PassThePopcorn for 72 hour only. Looking for an invite? Simply send me a request (please include a valid email address to send the invitation) to passthepopcorn@filesharefreak.com. Requesting of invites in the comments below will be ignored. Option 2 While open signups are currently closed, if you
010 • DontAskQuestions Says: 09.01.09 at 3:43 am
Glad to hear the good words, glad to hear the praise and comments.
Thank you all for it all. We’ve been simply blown away by the support we’ve gotten from the community of our site, and others! Our users have simply surpassed all expectations we could have ever had!
We hope to continue and hope to continuously surprise our users users with new features and content!
Again, thank you.
DontAskQuestions
011 • cock juggling thunder cunt Says: 09.01.09 at 3:46 am
LOL at XJ
012 • thunderc Says: 09.01.09 at 3:47 am
I love this site so much!!!!! They are all so great!!!!! They seem to be good at weeding out the jerks!!!!!
013 • ASKMEQUESTIONS Says: 09.01.09 at 3:48 am
PTP rocks!
PS, we love you XJ.
014 • honeybunny Says: 09.01.09 at 7:43 am
nevermind, fixed it..
015 • Tacoking Says: 09.01.09 at 9:05 am
To be more precise… we have
3400 MOVIES
3900 TORRENTS (some movies have multiple formats)’
* Torrents: 3,922
* Movies: 3,443
* Directors/Producers: 2,301
* Actors: 32,169
* Requests: 799 (58.07% filled)
* Snatches: 28,275
* Peers: 12,931
* Seeders: 12,432
* Leechers: 499
* Seeder/Leecher Ratio: 24.91
016 • hardandy Says: 09.01.09 at 2:22 pm
This site is getting more interesting, I hope they achieve their goal.
017 • geko Says: 09.01.09 at 7:03 pm
Oh, we will, and lol at xj, hey buddy!
updated stats:
* Torrents: 3,996
* Movies: 3,489
* Directors/Producers: 2,326
* Actors: 32,491
* Requests: 813 (57.93% filled)
* Snatches: 28,579
* Peers: 13,893
* Seeders: 13,294
* Leechers: 599
* Seeder/Leecher Ratio: 22.19
018 • exclamation Says: 10.01.09 at 1:23 am
Get in, and get uploading. We’ve got a quota the size of a state troopers ticket book to fill.
019 • Sharky Says: 11.01.09 at 5:34 pm
Plus, they just added a second server.
* Torrents: 4,199
* Movies: 3,643
* Directors/Producers: 2,412
* Actors: 33,933
* Requests: 850 (58.82% filled)
* Snatches: 30,052
* Peers: 14,715
* Seeders: 14,046
* Leechers: 669
The FileShareFreak free signup To PTP has now ended. Congrats to the 200+ new members… now start filling those requests for the “1001″. Let’s get that list a DONE DEAL!!
020 • fruk Says: 11.01.09 at 7:47 pm
you need this file :
http://braveurl.com/09gn7c
bye
fruk
021 • ScreaminJay Says: 12.01.09 at 6:37 pm
Find my username on a site, PM and ask me about joining PTP, I’m sure we can arrange something
022 • Me Says: 12.01.09 at 7:39 pm
Staff are all a$$holes.
023 • someone Says: 14.01.09 at 7:37 am
great I just tried to login and this is the message I got
“Your account has been disabled.
This is because .”
no reason it seems… ???
024 • anon Says: 14.01.09 at 10:02 am
Seems they want to add TV shows now… this will ruin this site.
025 • LOVER Says: 16.01.09 at 4:55 pm
This site is garbage. Their design is horrible. Their stylesheet stretch’s across the whole page. Forums are practically unreadable because of it. It’s like they got the idea of a movie tracker then threw gazelle on it and tried to add some features. I really hope Tehconnections new gazerlle layout is much better. I already know their staff is much nicer and reasonable compared to PTP. I will easily drop PTP if TC lives up to the hype!
026 • xj Says: 17.01.09 at 11:15 pm
lolfail
027 • xj Says: 17.01.09 at 11:16 pm
@ lover
trust me it is, tc gazelle > ptp fact
028 • anon Says: 19.01.09 at 1:02 pm
280 movies left in the 1001 Collection
* Torrents: 4,961
* Movies: 4,260
* Directors/Producers: 2,711
* Actors: 39,232
* Requests: 1,064 (57.05% filled)
* Snatches: 35,360
* Peers: 17,441
* Seeders: 16,656
* Leechers: 785
* Seeder/Leecher Ratio: 21.22
029 • BLAH Says: 19.01.09 at 8:19 pm
PTP is a great tracker @lover. If you don’t like the Dark Style sheet you can always change it to what.cd Kuro’s style sheet or any style sheet you want. No need to complain about the design in my opinion.
030 • Anon Says: 25.01.09 at 9:32 pm
135 movies to finish the 1001 movies collection
* Torrents: 5,756
* Movies: 4,926
* Trailers: 273
* Directors/Producers: 2,993
* Actors: 44,249
* Requests: 1,142 (60.86% filled)
* Snatches: 39,696
* Peers: 18,703
* Seeders: 17,977
* Leechers: 726
* Seeder/Leecher Ratio: 24.76
031 • DontAskQuestions Says: 25.01.09 at 9:40 pm
To SOMEONE: That means your account was disabled for inactivity. Come to the IRC to get your account back. Using a nick like ‘SOMEONE’ isn’t exactly easy to figure out who you are. Haha.
Sharky - Good job on the invites, amazing work!
032 • cock juggling thunder cunt Says: 25.01.09 at 10:38 pm
/me lols at XJ
Could you be any more whiny?
033 • 5000+ Movies Says: 28.01.09 at 10:55 am
80 Movies left to get
* Torrents: 5,918
* Movies: 5,060
* Trailers: 419
* Directors/Producers: 3,067
* Actors: 45,423
* Requests: 1,159 (62.64% filled)
* Snatches: 41,280
* Peers: 18,524
* Seeders: 17,775
* Leechers: 749
* Seeder/Leecher Ratio: 23.73
034 • 1001 Movies Done... Says: 30.01.09 at 10:27 pm
Less than 5 movies to go.
This will be done by days end.
* Torrents: 6,083
* Movies: 5,196
* Trailers: 536
* Directors/Producers: 3,130
* Actors: 46,729
* Requests: 1,199 (64.05% filled)
* Snatches: 43,079
* Peers: 19,250
* Seeders: 18,488
* Leechers: 762
* Seeder/Leecher Ratio: 24.26
035 • ULTRA THROAT LOZENGE Says: 31.01.09 at 12:35 pm
JOB DONE!! WE FUCKING ROCK
036 • Ebbe Says: 02.02.09 at 3:02 pm
Hi there!
Anybody got an invitation to the passthepopcorn.org site??
ebbe.malmstedt@hotmail.com
Highly appreciated!
037 • ilold Says: 11.02.09 at 5:10 am
someone pm’d this to every ptp user in irc an hr or so ago.
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To Whom It May Concern,
I started off as member of demonoid, it sucked much, but it satisfied my movie/games/music need for the time being, I then found my way to Oink, then after the brutal shutdown of Oink.cd, i found my way onto What.cd, the first site i truly fell in love, it satified my every musical need, the staff are unlike any of I have met before, the professionalism, the features, the torrents, the security, its the site that contains everything you want and more. And of course when Gazelle Source launched, I was again, blown away, it felt revitalizing, it was i knew, something that the Bittorrent world have never seen or experienced before, a brand new source code, that destroyed TBSource and TBDev in everyway possible. Soon after getting a warning letting from my ISP (Comcast) about downloading from demonoid (yes i know i suck :[), I started looking in What.cd Forums for new private sites that offered the same security. There i found SceneMovies.org, i signed up it looked good, worked well, staff seemed friendly and so forth. I continued using the site on a regular basis. They soon changed the domain from SceneMovies to PassThePopcorn. PassThePopcorn did very well to be completely honest, they had some unique ideas, 1001 movies.. well thats about it, I guess. Either way alot of torrents were uploaded, they were seeded alright, everything was good. Up until some problems started arising on site. Well im not staff, never have been, never want to be anymore, but I am friends with many of the staffers on PtP, and listening to them, I am truly sorry your site is run by Pham, from what I’ve personally seen and heard about him by myself and his staff, he is definitely not fit to run a bittorrent site. He has no respect for the users, the staff or the site itself, he makes all the decisions on his own without respecting the opinions of the people who made PtP what it was. I mean I can understand ignoring opinions for small things like change the size of a text or something, but for major things, its totally wrong, do you really think good sites get better by doing things your own way, or listening to the staff and other users? Ill answer.. listening to the staff and users. So then i found myself thinking, if its run this way by Pham, i wonder what other things hes messed up. Being somewhat of a programmer myself, i started sniffing about the PtP Server, found SSH (Port 22) is completely open, it would only take a widely available SSH Bruteforcer and a large password list to crack it im sure, then all the information on 6,000+ PtP users is available to the world and legal figures, 6000+ torrents gone down the drain, several hundreds if not thousands of hours of work gone to waste, but whatever maybe its a super hard password. Then i go sniffing around apache and to my surprise, i find this http://passthepopcorn.org/phpmyadmin/ widely available, not even https so that no one can sniff the traffic. Any scriptkiddie with a trafficsniffer could easily grab the password off that, not to mention its an old version of phpmyadmin which has known hacks readily available, in my opinion and in the opinion of the creators of Gazelle, PHPMYADMIN IS FAIL, learn to use SQL via SSH or dont use it at ALL, no one cares if its easier for you, but we do care if its safer for all the members on site. So right about then im thinking to myself, why the hell am i still at passthepopcorn.org, i really dont think it has a future. I head back to What.Cd Forums, invite section, same place i came across PassThePopcorn, to my surprise i see 2 interesting looking movie sites, TehConnection and Goem. So I spend a few hours over 3 days at Goem.org and TehConnection.eu, I was able to get an invite to Goem.org on irc.p2p-network.net in their support channel within 10 mins, TehConnection was open signups was able to get on in a sinch, at which point I also headed to their irc @ irc.tehconnection.eu. Call me an a**hole, but I am so glad PtP disappointed me because I would have never found Goem.org and TehConnection.eu. What can i say about Goem.org, such a big selection of movies, the server is stable and secure, the amount of sheer peers is amazing, the site is programmed as well as can be for a TBsource based site, the integrated features is fantastic, Goem.org is definitely one of my favourite trackers now. Now, TehConnection.eu, some people call it a rival site to PtP, and I can see why, but I guess its not much of a rivally when TehConnection blows PtP out of the water in every single aspect. If god is reading this, smite me and the ones i love if im not speaking the truth, TehConnection is the most amazing looking, perfectly programmed BitTorrent site i have ever laid eyes on, their integration of design & features is so amazing, it puts What.Cd and their entire development team to shame. I spend a several hours in IRC aswell, and I felt at home, the users and staff are so friendly and so skilled with encoding, not just leeching off some FTP dump and uploading like PtP, its sheer brilliance, I took some time to msg one of their staff members, and ask what sort of securities they had in place to protect the users and staff, and the first thing the staffer said to me was, “try and hack it”, he then explained all the protocols they had in place and I was in awe. They seem to have introduced CaratNetworks previously known as ClearanceRack to all other Torrent sites, allowing for the “hydra” affect you hear so much on TorrentFreak.com, CaratNetworks is owned by a friend of TC’s owner, the sites, the domains, everything registered with the site is tunneled through an offshore dummy corporation so that no actual people are involved, the server itself is firewalled on a secret ssh port that allows only 2 ip address used staff located in 2 undisclosed location on seperate ends of the earth. The entire development team from TehConnection isnt just hobby php users, half of them develop for a living and the other half are gifted with programming various languages as if it was handed down from the gods themselves. Anywho, i think im talking to much, I only have advice for PtP Staff and Users now, while the site is under control of Pham, nothing good will come from it, Staff Rebel it is your only option, or head to Goem or TehConnection, I know many of you arent fond of them, but they will surprise you and show you that they are way better than PtP ever could be, Users, the decisions is yours, stay with a site thats not gonna go anywhere but down, or start contributing to stronger, better communities and make one special site the #1 movie based torrent tracker in the torrent world.
I’m done i guess, the decision is yours, I have removed all my personal info from my PtP account and left it to be deleted from the database.
= ASAAB =
038 • nnnnnn Says: 13.02.09 at 5:44 pm
You’re putting PTP down. That’s sad post. Everyone has different opinions.
039 • Joe Wilde2003 Says: 24.08.09 at 8:40 pm
Hi There,
I would love to join the site and actually have a few dvd copies of some of the rarer films like October 1927 etc. I am a big film buff and would love an opportuntiy to view some of the movies via this site. Thanks a lot.
Joe