Total Downloads: 32.1 million It'll be up to you whether you think Fifty Shades of Grey being illegally downloaded 32.1 million times last year is an insane notion, an unfortunate signifier of global taste or just a worldwide symptom of a desire to see what all the fuss was about. Either way it can be assumed that this film was torrented aggressively by men and women alike; where women comprised most of the film's cinema-going audience (over 70% on its opening weekend), a lot of men who were intrigued enough to see the film were obviously a bit too embarrassed to actually attend. An easy solution to that social conundrum is to put on an eye patch and type '50 Shades of Torrent' into Google with your hooked hand. Then of course there's the female audience who similarly had only a passing interest, or those who saw it in the cinema but just wanted to experience the line "Laters, baby" once more, from the comfort and privacy of their own home. Whatever the case may be for Fifty Shades of Grey's "success" as an illegal download, it can't be too surprising that a film that grossed $570 million worldwide would then also be pirated a boatload of times also.
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