Andre Yoskowitz
13 Oct 2011 14:41
TorrentFreak has posted a list of the 10 most pirated films of all-time, using weekly data they have compiled since 2006.
What is clear from the list, however, is that despite being massively pirated, all the films did particulary well at the box office, breaking Hollywood's mantra of "piracy killing ticket sales."
The data is gathered from only public torrent trackers since 2006, so please keep that in mind as there are certainly other ways to pirate movies including private trackers, warez sites, p2p and newsgroups. None of those figures are included.
In first is the highest-banking film of all-time, Avatar, followed by the $1 billion grossing The Dark Knight in second.
The rest of the list: