'Fast Five' tops 2011 list of most-pirated movies
22.05.12
LOS ANGELES - "Fast Five," "The Hangover Part II" and "Thor" were the year's most pirated movies, topping a list that contained some surprising differences from the most popular movies at the box office.
The fifth and most successful installment in Universal Pictures' high-octane "The Fast and the Furious" action series, starring Vin Diesel and Paul Walker, was downloaded 9.3 million times worldwide in 2011 through BitTorrent Inc.'s file-sharing technology. The data was compiled by the BitTorrent-focused website TorrentFreak.
The top-10 list for the year included several movies that did little business at the box office but were particularly popular among tech-savvy young males, including the Jake Gyllenhaal science fiction film "Source Code" and the Zach Snyder-directed "Sucker Punch." An unexpected No. 7 was the James Franco drama "127 Hours," which came out in late 2010 but gained more attention early this year because of its multiple Oscar nominations.
The year's most popular movie at the box office, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2," barely sneaked onto the most pirated movie list at No. 10, having been illegally downloaded 6 million times.
Source: Sacramento Bee