10 Most Pirated Films Of All Time

Cue puns about Pirates Of The Caribbean.

By WhatCulture /

If you're competent enough to browse the net, then you'll have definitely watched a few free films in your time online. It's the way the world works nowadays. It would be easy to waste a ton of words on the morals/legality of doing so here, but that's been done to death elsewhere. Several months ago, the huge torrent site ExtraTorrent put together the statistics for the 20 most pirated files of all time. Given the client's massive amounts of traffic, it's clearly pretty representative of downloading patterns across the web. Its numbers can be taken to reflect those of other file-sharing sites. Interestingly, the majority of the most pirated files in the history of the torrenting site are films, most of which managed to become box office hits despite - or perhaps because of the recommendations of - the amount of people that viewed them for free. Or maybe these folk enjoyed these movies so much in the cinema that they couldn't wait for an official release to illegally download them to watch again. The top 10 films on the list are included here in reverse order, from the least to the most downloaded...

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