Sep 13, 2021 21:00:00

The world's oldest live torrent file, 'The Matrix Parody Movie,' remains available for download for 18 years

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BitTorrent ' using P2P , the world's oldest file will soon celebrate its 18th anniversary under the condition that it can still be downloaded. The content of the file is a parody movie created by fans of the cyberpunk science fiction movie 'The Matrix ', which recorded box office revenue of more than 460 million dollars (about 50 billion yen) worldwide.

The World's Oldest Active Torrent Turns 18 Soon * TorrentFreak
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BitTorrent is a file sharing system that has a large number of users all over the world, but because it uses the P2P protocol, there is a problem that 'files cannot be downloaded if there are no people in the world to upload'. The file that has survived these harsh conditions for the longest time in the world is about to celebrate its 18th anniversary on September 28, 2021.

The identity of this file is the parody movie 'The Fanimatrix: Run Program ' made by fans of the cyberpunk science fiction movie 'The Matrix'. The title is Dajare, which is the official animation movie ' Animatrix ' based on Matrix, plus 'Fan', but the content is Dante and Medusa on the time axis before the appearance of Neo. A person carries out a mission to invade the virtual world in order to save humanity. Editor Rajneel Singh has reposted it to Vimeo about five years after its premiere on torrents, and anyone can watch it.

THE FANIMATRIX: Run Program on Vimeo


That Agent Smith's 'The Matrix Avoidance' and action scenes based on kung fu are also reproduced.

The Fanimatrix was created by New Zealand matrix fans Rajneel Singh, Steven A. Davis and others. It was released on September 28, 2003, but at that time there were no video sharing platforms such as YouTube and Vimeo, and the production cost was limited to 800 dollars (about 96,000 yen at the rate at that time). Because it was done, there is no option to publish the movie on my server. Under these circumstances, BitTorrent was the public method that Sebastian Kai Frost, who was a member of the production team, found.

The Fanimatrix, which was released on BitTorrent in this way , became popular on Slashdot and recorded 70,000 first week downloads, which can be said to be amazing considering that the number of BitTorrent users was still small at that time. It has greatly contributed to increasing the name recognition of BitTorrent.

Frost said he has a plan for maintaining The Fanimatrix's torrent files and commented that he 'may have a special celebration' for the 20th anniversary.