Thread: Latest Harry Potter Film Leaks on BitTorrent Before Theater Premiere

Haha! Not like I'm gonna watch a Harry Potter movie anyway

Latest Harry Potter Film Leaks on BitTorrent Before Theater Premiere

One of the most interesting leaks of the year has just occurred with the appearance of the first 36 minutes of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 on dozens of BitTorrent sites. The upcoming Harry Potter film will have its worldwide premiere later this week, but not before hundreds and thousands of people have grabbed a copy of an extended preview on BitTorrent.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is the first half of the two part finale of the Harry Potter film series. The film is set to premiere worldwide this Thursday and is expected to gross over a billion dollars in the weeks and months ahead.

Harry Potter films generally generate quite a lot of buzz on BitTorrent as well. Last year, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ended up in our ‘most pirated movies‘ list with close to 8 million downloads. It is expected that the new film will eventually be downloaded just as much, or more.

Already thousands of people are searching for a copy of the film online. Yesterday, it was the most searched for film on some torrent sites, which is quite unusual for a title that has yet to be released in theaters. Today, many of these searchers may get excited by the discovery of a partial DVD screener which came out a few hours ago.

Released by the group iNK, the leaked copy is not a usual DVD screener. Yes, the watermarks and other screener features are there, but instead of the full film the leaked copy only covers the first 36 minutes of the highly anticipated release.

Since no full version has followed up until now, it has to be assumed that the source for this leak was only a partial screener. It is not unlikely that it may have been intentionally time-limited because the studio feared a leak, as indeed happened.

A good move, since this leak may actually benefit the movie instead of hurting it.

Warner Bros. Pictures is usually none too fond of leaks, especially if a film gets out before it premieres in theater. However, today’s leak may actually benefit the movie and boost theater attendance, as long as the full version doesn’t leak out too. If the first half hour is compelling enough, people will have to go to the theater and pay for a ticket to see the rest.



It may be going a little bit too far to suggest that Warner Bros. leaked the film intentionally, but from a business perspective it might make sense.

This is not the first time that a Harry Potter “Deathly Hallows” leak has caused controversy. In 2007 a scan of the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows book was posted online before it hit the book stores, and was then quickly transcribed by fans.

SOURCE : Latest Harry Potter Film Leaks on BitTorrent Before Theater Premiere | TorrentFreak

TOXiC (original source was NoGrp) was the first to up it then iNK tweaked the audio. But whoever leaked it was smart. Even though it was 36 minutes. It was a damn good 36 minutes. Fan or not, still made you want to see what happens.

The things like this happens very often. This is piracy

smart marketing is what this is

Originally Posted by peter330

smart marketing is what this is

True thing. It markets the movie before it hits theaters. I would do the same myself.

In 30Min of watching you end up waiting till weekend to get tickets.


My GF and Myself already ordered tickets

Inside job I expect you can almost imagine the guy getting the first 36mins before being discovered! lol

I can't wait to see the rest. Hopefully it's a lot better than the last movie. HBP movie didn't do the book justice.

Like I just said on IRC, I'm going to wait for both parts to be released in BluRay, and yes I know it's going to take a year or so but I don't mind waiting

shit only first 36 min...ha ha watching it only gonna spoil the movie for me so I am staying away from it now..will wait for a HD to come out :D :D