Film Piracy

Piracy is one of, if not the biggest problem of the film industry to date, with the invention of the internet people have quickly made it capable of supplying millions of other people with free downloadable content which they have illegally uploaded. This has been possible thanks to site like BitTorrent and other file sharing site. Below is the list of illegal downloads from the most popular films alone:

1. Avatar - 16,580,000 downloads

2. Kick-Ass - 11,400,000 downloads

3. Inception - 9,720,000 downloads

4. Shutter Island - 9,490,000 downloads

5. Iron Man 2 - 8,810,000 downloads

6. Clash of the Titans - 8,040,000 downloads

7. Green Zone - 7,730,000 downloads

8. Sherlock Holmes - 7,160,000 downloads

9. The Hurt Locker - 6,850,000 downloads

10. Salt - 6,700,000 downloads

As you can see these figures are easily capable of hitting the income of those who worked on such films with great ease, even though this is a less significant problem for films like Avatar, which make profits of over 2.7 billion to date, smaller films with smaller budgets can sadly be seriously affected by pirating and many production companies and films to date are closed down due to these illegal downloads.