Millions Pirate Movies In 2014 ,‘Wolf of Wall Street’ And ‘Frozen’ With 1987 ‘Robocop’ In The List

Still more people are opting to illegally download movies so they can watch it for free and this year 'The Wolf Of Wall Street " and "Frozen" are the most pirated films, Screen Crush reported.

These two movies are actually films released in 2013 which means many still refuse to rent them or pay a fee for legal downloads.

Leonardo DiCarpio's 'Wolf of Wall Street' have been downloaded 30 million times and Frozen at least 29 million times.

Sandra Bullock's 'Gravity' comes in third with 29.357 million views and the Hobbit with 'The Desolation of Smaug' with 27,627 million and fifth is 'Thor: The Dark World' with 25,749 million.

The original 1987 Robocop movie also made it to the list with at least 18 million downloads which possibly stemmed from the reboot Robocop in 2013.

According to an article in smallbusiness.chron said that there have been 96.3 million people who streamed pirated video in 2013 and 148. Million who downloaded pirated videos.

The article also quoted "Wall Street Journal," Stan Liebowitz of the University of Texas at Dallas to say that there have $18.5 billion in revenues lost every year in piracy of videos.

LEK consulting firm in an earlier research showed that Piracy rate are highest in China and

Thailand and that the typical pirate is age 16.

Based on Havocscope information meanwhile stated that the effect of movie piracy is between $2 Billion to $3 Billion a year.

But a reported on Wired.com showed that film piracy doesn't affect the industry drastically.

Quoting a Researchers from Wellesley College and the University of Minnesota said, "we do not see evidence of elevated sales displacement in US box office revenue following the adoption of Bit Torrent, and we suggest that delayed legal availability of the content abroad may drive the losses to piracy."

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