'The Wolf of Wall Street' and 'Game of Thrones' Top the Most Pirated Media of 2014Unsurprisingly, piracy numbers line up with the year's box office numbers and television ratings.
ByNina Zipkin•
While Sony's controversial comedyThe Interviewis the embattled studio's most watched online film ever (complete with an$18 millionopening weekend), piracy certainly is still alive and well.
Perhaps ironic given its subject matter, butThe Wolf of Wall Street, Martin Scorsese's based-on-a-true-story tale of Wall Street excesses and corruption, is the most pirated film of 2014, with over more than 30 million illegal downloads,accordingtoVarietyand analytics company Excipio. Disney's animated juggernautFrozencame in at a close second.
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While the top 20 most downloaded films included some prestigious movies like12 Years a Slave(at number 10) andGravity(at number four), the majority of the most pirated flicks were largely big blockbuster franchises, adapted from books --Divergent, Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug-- superhero sequels and reboots likeGodzillaandRobocop, although Excipio was unclear as to how many of the more than 29 million illegal downloads were for the '87 original.
Meanwhile on the TV side, the siteTorrentFreakfoundthat for the third year running, HBO'sGame of Thronesis the most pirated program of 2014 with more than 8 million downloads from BitTorrent, followed by AMC'sThe Walking Dead(4.2 million), and CBS'sThe Big Bang Theory(3.6 million), the consistently most watched cable drama and network comedy.
For the full lists, head on over toVarietyandTorrentFreak
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