| rank | movie | ± downloads | worldwide grosses |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Avatar (2009) | 21 million | $2,782,275,172 |
| 2 | The Dark Knight (2008) | 19 million | $1,001,921,825 |
| 3 | Transformers (2007) | 19 million | $709,709,780 |
| 4 | Inception (2010) | 18 million | $825,408,570 |
| 5 | The Hangover (2009) | 17 million | $467,483,912 |
| 6 | Star Trek (2008) | 16 million | $385,680,446 |
| 7 | Kick-Ass (2010) | 15 million | $96,188,903 |
| 8 | The Departed (2006) | 14 million | $289,847,354 |
| 9 | The Incredible Hulk (2008) | 14 million | $263,427,551 |
| 10 | Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End (2007) | 14 million | $963,420,425 |
Top 10 Most Pirated Movies of All Time
by Patricia Montgomery, LincsMag Writer.
Date: 23 October 2011
The chaps at Netflix (an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America ... but not here in the UK), recently published a list of the ten most rented movies of all time. This then got the chaps at TorrentFreak (a blog dedicated to reporting the latest news on the BitTorrent protocol and file sharing) thinking; what are the most downloaded movies on BitTorrent?
For nearly half a decade TorrentFreak have compiled weekly and yearly lists of the most popular downloads. So they have created the full chart of the top ten most pirated movies transferred via the now ubiquitous protocol.
Every day millions of people use BitTorrent to download and share movies. But what are all these people downloading?
With an estimated 21 million downloads, Avatar is the most pirated movie of all time, followed by The Dark Knight and Transformers with about 19 million downloads each. Interestingly enough, none of the above films were present in Netflix’s list.
The BitTorrent and Netflix lists do show some overlap, as Inception and The Departed make an appearance in both.
Despite the massive piracy, the films below have not done too shabbily at the box-office. Avatar is the best grossing movie of all time and The Dark Knight is third, right before Star Trek.
The Top 10
The list below is based on statistics that are gathered from public BitTorrent trackers, dating back to early 2006. As BitTorrent’s usage in the years before was only a fraction of what it is today, we can more or less expect the list below to cover all the most downloaded movies on BitTorrent. Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent of All Time
Source: torrentfreak.com through creativecommons.org
