"Avatar" is the most downloaded film from torrent websites. The Oscar-winning James Cameron uber-blockbuster was, according to TorrentFreak, downloaded an incredible 16,548,000 times.
That's 33% more than last year's top pirated film in J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" which, according to The Hollywood Reporter, was downloaded just under 11 million times.
20th Century Fox is not exactly in tears about what the film has clocked in as it made close to $2.8 billion from the worldwide box office, never mind what it made on the home entertainment front.
Despite helmer James Cameron has frequently saying touting that 3D filmmaking is the industry's best shot at combating piracy, this doesn't stop pirates from breaking their own worldwide records in the piracy box office.
It's a real problem for films which did not perform remarkably at the box office are as is the case with Lionsgate's "Kick-Ass" - downloaded 11.4 million times.
Whatever anyone is doing about the piracy problem...it's not working folks. Get it together. All the professionals in the industry who work their tales off for next to nothing, scraping by, are the ones who are suffering the most. Not the James Camerons and Steven Spielbergs.
Surprisingly, second on the list is Kick-Ass, distributed in the US by Lionsgate. That film recorded 11,400,000 downloads off of torrent websites and grossed a somewhat disappointing $48 million domestically (plus another $48 million overseas).
Here is the full list from TorrentFreak:
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Avatar / 16,580,000
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Kick-Ass / 11,400,000
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Inception / 9,720,000
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Shutter Island / 9,490,000
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Iron Man 2 / 8,810,000
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Clash of the Titans / 8,040,000
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Green Zone / 7,730,000
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Sherlock Holmes / 7,160,000
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The Hurt Locker / 6,850,000
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Salt / 6,700,000