{"id":114265,"date":"2017-01-03T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T10:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=114265"},"modified":"2017-01-03T12:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T10:39:29","slug":"the-10-most-pirated-movies-of-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/114265-the-10-most-pirated-movies-of-2016","title":{"rendered":"The 10 most pirated movies of 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/deadpool-torrented-movie-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak<\/a> <\/strong>has revealed that Deadpool was the most pirated movie of 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Pirated copies of the American superhero film first appeared early February triggering millions of downloads during the months that followed. Even today, thousands of people are still actively sharing it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Superheroes and comics are doing very well on torrent sites this year&#8221; noted TorrentFreak, as the top three is completed by \u2018Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice\u2019 and \u2018Captain America Civil War&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And further down the list we also find \u2018X-Men Apocalypse\u2019 and \u2018Suicide Squad.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However TorrentFreak noticed that while there may be a correlation between movies perceived to be &#8220;geeky&#8221; and those that were pirated most, a larger correlation can be drawn between\u00a0between piracy and box-office sales.<\/p>\n<p>Deadpool made a massive $783 million at the worldwide box office against a budget of just $58 million, according to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=deadpool2016.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Box Office Mojo<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Second place Baman v Superman: Dawn of Justice also performed well bringing in\u00a0$868 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>There is one noticeable exception to this trend however, Independence Day: Resurgence was considered a flop &#8220;only&#8221; bringing in\u00a0$387 million worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the complete list of films below.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Deadpool<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Captain America: Civil War<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Star Wars: The Force Awakens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>X-Men Apocalypse<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Warcraft<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Independence Day: Resurgence<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Suicide Squad<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Finding Dory<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Revenant<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/113053-google-reveals-the-50-most-popular-movies-of-2016.html\" target=\"_blank\">Google reveals the 50 most popular movies of 2016<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These were the most pirated movies in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":114269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[15623,21,15303,8305],"class_list":["post-114265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-15623","tag-headline","tag-pirated","tag-torrentfreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114265\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}