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The Interview’s successful digital release serves as proof that people are willing to pay to legally stream movies online — the controversial flick was streamed 2 million times in its first four days online — but the industry still has to deal with rampant illegal piracy.
So what did torrent users want to see — but not pay for — the most in 2014?
Excipio, a firm that tracks online copyright infringement, found that the year’s most pirated movies (between Jan. 1 and Dec. 23) range from serious Oscar contenders (12 Years a Slave) to children’s classics (Frozen) to … Michael Bay (Transformers: Age of Extinction).
Here’s the list on Variety of the top 20 pirated films of 2014, along with the number of times they’ve been downloaded:
1. The Wolf of Wall Street, 30.035 million
2. Frozen, 29.919 million
3. RoboCop, 29.879 million (including 2014 and 1987 version)
4. Gravity, 29.357 million
5. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 27.627 million
6. Thor: The Dark World, 25.749 million
7. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, 25.628 million
8. The Legend of Hercules, 25.137 million
9. X-Men: Days of Future Past, 24.380 million
10. 12 Years a Slave, 23.653 million
11. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, 23.543 million
12. American Hustle, 23.143 million
13. 300: Rise of an Empire, 23.096 million
14. Transformers: Age of Extinction, 21.65 million
15. Godzilla, 20.956 million
16. Noah, 20.334 million
17. Divergent, 20.312 million
18. Edge of Tomorrow, 20.299 million
19. Captain Phillips, 19.817 million
20. Lone Survivor, 19.130 million
[Variety]
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