SF & Fantasy Dominate 2010 Most Pirate Downloads List

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Half of the top 10 are SFX films

According to a survey by TorrentFreak, Avatar was illegally downloaded just over 16.5 million times, which marks a 33% increase over the number one illegally-downloaded film of 2009, Star Trek .

But before we get all huffy about, “Well, piracy clearly isn’t killing the film industry,” (Avatar made $2.8 billion worldwide) there’s a different story with the number two movie on the list – Kick-Ass . That performed less well than many had hoped at the cinema, and that can’t have been helped by nearly 11.5 million people sneakily downloading it. Then again, its DVD sales didn’t seem to suffer.

Here’s the full top 10:

  1. Avatar (16,580,000)
  2. Kick-Ass (11,400,000)
  3. Inception (9,720,000)
  4. Shutter Island (9,490,000)
  5. Iron Man 2 (8,810,000)
  6. Clash of the Titans (8,040,000)
  7. Green Zone (7,730,000)
  8. Sherlock Holmes (7,160,000)
  9. The Hurt Locker (6,850,000)
  10. Salt (6,700,000)
Dave Golder
Dave Golder
Freelance Writer

Dave is a TV and film journalist who specializes in the science fiction and fantasy genres. He's written books about film posters and post-apocalypses, alongside writing for SFX Magazine for many years.