The movies of 2013 are still fresh in the mind, at least when it comes to piracy. Last year’s movies dominated the list of most-pirated films of the year, including Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street and Disney’s Frozen.
Piracy-tracking firm Expicio shared its end-of-year data with Variety and they found that Wolf was illegally downloaded a whopping 30.035 million times. If only the pirates waited a few months, they could have streamed it legally on Netflix.
Frozen came in second with 29.919 million downloads.
RoboCop surprisingly came in third, since Expicio counted downloads for both the cult 1987 original and the 2014 remake. Combined, the two films were downloaded 29.879 million times.
Alfonso Cuaron’s Oscar-winning Gravity, also from 2013, was downloaded 29.357 million times. Steve McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave, which beat out Gravity for the Best Picture Oscar of 2013, came in 10th with 23.653 million downloads.
Here’s the full Top 10 list, from Variety:
1. The Wolf of Wall Street: 30.035 million (Paramount, Dec. 25, 2013)
2. Frozen: 29.919 million (Disney, Nov. 27, 2013)
3. RoboCop: 29.879 million (MGM, Feb. 12, 2014; and Orion, July 17, 1987)
4. Gravity: 29.357 million (Warner Bros., Oct. 4, 2013)
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug: 27.627 million (Warner Bros., Dec. 13, 2013)
6. Thor: The Dark World: 25.749 million (Disney/Marvel, Nov. 8, 2013)
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier: 25.628 million (Disney/Marvel, April 4, 2014)
8. The Legend of Hercules: 25.137 million (Summit, Jan. 10, 2014)
9. X-Men: Days of Future Past: 24.380 million (20th Century Fox, May 23, 2014)
10. 12 Years a Slave: 23.653 million (Fox Searchlight, Oct. 18, 2013)
Last week, TorrentFreak named HBO’s Game of Thrones the most pirated show of 2014.
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