MUMBAI: According to data released by a file-sharing blog, James Cameron‘s Avatar was the most pirated film of the year.

The highest film in history was downloaded from torrent websites 16.6 million times, according to TorrentFreak. This act shows a 33 per cent increase in download activity from last year‘s top-pirated film Star Trek that was downloaded a little below 11 million times.

Avatar grossed nearly $2.8 billion at the worldwide box-office to become the highest-grossing movie ever.

Second on the list was Kick-Ass with 11.4 million downloads off torrent websites. This was followed by Inception that recorded 9.7 million downloads, Shutter Island with 9.5 million and Iron Man 2 with 8.8 million downloads.