The films most pirated 2011 are...

Downloads of films are declining, via BitTorrent...

TorrentFreak has published, as every year, its balance sheet, the most pirated films in Peer-to-Peer via BitTorrent. Rights-holders will be probably delighted to learn that the global volumes are down, with the Top 10 films that spawned 74.6 million downloads in 2011 against 92 million in 2010. But from there to imagine that repression implemented by some countries, as in France with the Hadopi, is at the origin of this decline, there is a chasm that we will not take.

Indeed, we know that more and Internet users have turned to other solutions (more convenient, faster and less controlled) to download illegal files. Is of course the direct-download on platforms of accommodation such as MegaUpload or Rapid Share. And this then the statistics are also undermined by the streaming, and including legal progress with very interesting offerings such as Netflix.

History to continue to go against conventional wisdom, it would also demonstrate that downloading does not people to go to the cinema, because as remind our colleagues from ZDNet, the most pirated films are also those with the most obscure in 2011 rooms filled.

Classification of the downloaded films via BitTorrent in 2011:

1: Fast & Furious 5-9.2 millions2: Very Bad Trip 2-8.8 million3: Thor-8,3 millions4: Source Code - 7.9 millions5: number four: 7.6 millions6: Sucker Punch: 7.2 millions7: 127 hours: 6.9 millions8: Rango: 6.4 millions9: the speeches of a King: 6.2 millions10: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part 2: 6 million

Classification of the downloaded films via BitTorrent in 2010:

1: Avatar-16,58 million 2: Kick-Ass-11,40 million 3: Inception-9,72 million 4: Shutter Island-9,49 million 5: Iron Man 2-8,81 6 million: Clash of the Titans-8,04 million 7: Green Zone-7,73 million 8: Sherlock Holmes - 7,16 million 9: deminers-6,85 million 10: Salt-6,70 million