Most pirated movie of 2009?

TorrentFreak, a popular blog about the BitTorrent community, has just unveiled its Top 10 most pirated movies in 2009, based on BitTorrent downloads. What was no. 1?

Written by “Ernesto,” the TorrentFreak blog has published a list of the 10 most illegally downloaded flicks of the year.

Before we get to that, you might be interested to know this week’s most downloaded movies via BitTorrent sites are Michael Jackson’s “This Is It,” followed by ”James Cameron’s Avatar” and disaster epic, “2012.”

When it comes to the most downloaded flicks on BitTorrent sites in 2009, the following are the Top 10, as calculated by TorrentFreak:

Ranking               Movie                                Estimated # of Downloads

1                                   Star Trek                                  10,960,000

2                                   Transformers: ROTF           10,600,000

3                                   RocknRolla                             9,430,000

4                                   The Hangover                       9,180,000

5                                   Twilight                                  8,720,000

6                                   District 9                                8,280,000

7                                   Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince               7,930,000

8                                   State of Play                          7,440,000

9                                   X-Men Origins: Wolverine    7,200,000

10                                 Knowing                                 6,930,000

Holy seeders, Batman!

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