District 9 Pirated Over 1 Million Times in 24 Hours
District 9 is well on its way to becoming the most pirated movie of the year.
Remember when everyone flipped out over the pirated copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine that was leaked to the internet? Fox said the filed was downloaded over four million times while it was online. And it seems District 9 is going to give Wolverine a run for its money when it comes to being the most pirated movie of 2009.
TorrentFreak reports that a DVD-quality version of District 9 that was leaked over the past weekend means the movie is well on its way to becoming the most pirated movie of the year. In the last 24 hours, the file has already been downloaded one million times.
Have you seen District 9 yet? Did you go to see it in the theaters or are you one of the million people who just grabbed the movie online and watched it at home on the couch? Let us know in the comments below!

With that said, Hollywood is making a giant fuss about money lost due to piracey but look at their gross numbers on the summer blockbusters. Hollywood has brought in over $4 Billion in just the past 2 months. Im pretty sure it didnt cost them that much to make those movies. Even with Wolverine being so pirated its still one of the top 10 Highest grossing movies of the year. If you ask me all the piracey talk was publicity.
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Years/2009/top-grossing
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With that said, Hollywood is making a giant fuss about money lost due to piracey but look at their gross numbers on the summer blockbusters. Hollywood has brought in over $4 Billion in just the past 2 months. Im pretty sure it didnt cost them that much to make those movies. Even with Wolverine being so pirated its still one of the top 10 Highest grossing movies of the year. If you ask me all the piracey talk was publicity.
http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Years/2009/top-grossing
I reckon nobody in Europe or the US would've even heard of the movie it wasn't for the illegal downloads, so it's very well the movie grossed more revenue because of the free publicity, anyway, it did just fine, grossing 118 million dollar already.
I reckon nobody in Europe or the US would've even heard of the movie it wasn't for the illegal downloads, so it's very well the movie grossed more revenue because of the free publicity, anyway, it did just fine, grossing 118 million dollar already.
You'll never see any concrete figures on 'lost sales' as its all hypothetical.
Studios tend to get bent out of shape when they hear that their movie/product is pirated and try to attribute a number to it which ends up no where near a reliable figure (too many assumptions being made).
Its no different than if Sony/Microsoft claimed they lost sales for offering free demos on their network, based on their projections of $5 per demo, they could have made $X. Most people would contest that figure on the basis that most people wouldn't have downloaded the demo if it wasn't free. The remaining audience that would have still paid for a demo would be minuscule in comparison to the initial sample.
Just because I have a demonoid account, doesn't mean I use it. Can't wait to see this movie in the cinema.
1M downloads of District 9 on the ... net
I didn't download it. That's what boyfriends are for. I will pay to go see it in the cinema when I can. It has only been out two days here.
o well you should have to wait till it is out on dvd then !!! ... why should we ? ... we have just as much rights to enjoy a movie on the day of release as anyone else .... it is not our fault that the idiots who run the entertainment industry refuses to adapt to what people want ... adapt of die out ....
$10 for movie tickets is way too much.