As it goes at the box office, so it goes among thieves.
"Avatar" was the most pirated film of 2010 — no big surprise, given that James Cameron's outer-space epic broke every box office record ever. (We take this to mean people wanted to see it).
According to TorrentFreak (their name for themselves, not ours), "Avatar" was illegally downloaded 16,580,000 times on BitTorrent alone, smashing last year's record set by "Star Trek," which logged 10,960,000.
Totally undermining our just-stated theory that box-office success leads to piracy, "Kick-Ass" was the second-most pirated movie of the year, despite its modest receipts in wide release. Leonardo DiCaprio was also popular with sleazy, cheap, ne'er-do-well scalawag thieves, who made "Inception" and "Shutter Island" Nos. 3 and 4.
And apropos of nothing, "Iron Man 2" was No. 5.
Now that we've spoiled all the top ones, a chart!
