District 9 was a great movie I am glad it won the BitTorrent Oscar ;) I am surprised Avatar was downloaded so many times considering that it wasn't a very good movie aside from its visuals.
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So they counted a rather large number of votes multiple times?
and did not consider distribution time at all which makes the results largely meaningless.