Thread: Avatar Crowned The Most Pirated Movie of 2010

Avatar Crowned The Most Pirated Movie of 2010

With 2010 nearing its end, we take a look at the most-pirated titles across various categories, starting with movies. Aside from the usual suspects such as Oscar winners Avatar and The Hurt Locker, the list also includes a few surprising entries and some notable absentees.

Last year Avatar broke all records at the box office, and in 2010 the film’s success continued online scooping up yet another prestigious award.

With 16,580,000 downloads on BitTorrent alone, Avatar is undisputedly the most pirated film of the year.

Never before have we seen this many downloads of a movie in a single year. This honor previously belonged to last year’s winner Star Trek with 10,960,000 downloads, but Avatar quashed this previous record.

Earlier this year we already crowned Avatar as the most downloaded Blu-ray film ever, with 200,000 downloads in just 4 days. In the months that followed the number of Blu-ray downloads of Avatar have exceeded two million.

Another expected entry in the list of most pirated movies in 2010 is The Hurt Locker. This film was already available on BitTorrent for most of 2009, but really started to gain attention from the public after it won six Oscars.

This huge success online compared to the meager box-office earnings was most likely one of the reasons why the makers of the film sued thousands of alleged BitTorrent users last spring. Despite the looming threat of legal action the downloads continued pretty much undeterred, resulting in a 9th place in todays list.

As every year there are also a few notable absentees, such as the two best grossing movies at the box-office this year, Toy Story 3 and Alice in Wonderland. On the other hand, Kick-Ass and Green Zone were both hugely popular among the downloading public, while their box office grosses were relatively modest.

The data for this list is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from thousands of BitTorrent trackers. All release formats, including cammed versions are counted. Afterwards, the data is carefully checked and corrected.



Most Downloaded Movies on BitTorrent, 2010

Source: Avatar Crowned The Most Pirated Movie of 2010 | TorrentFreak

Kick-ass is the second????? What?! How can inception be after OMG!

Kick ass has been available for much longer than inception! It's DVD release was this summer!

Originally Posted by Reload

Kick-ass is the second????? What?! How can inception be after OMG!

to be fair, kickass was a much much better movie!

It was show-time for avatar! I like that movie

I have seen all the movie on the list. Avatar is my favorite.

Originally Posted by Kincor

I have seen all the movie on the list. Avatar is my favorite.

Yes, Mine too...

It was a Great Movie..
Downloaded So Many Versions of it.
Including a 3D one too..

As it was pointed out... the dvd of kickass has been available for much long.
But this stats should have been useful if they would have considered the no of downloads/time after pre.

This result was expected.. This was the most viewed movie so, most pirated too... ;)