Entertainment | movies Avatar Tops List of Most Pirated Movies 'Dark Knight' and 'Transformers' aren't far behind By Dustin Lushing Posted Oct 13, 2011 5:57 PM CDT Copied In this image released by 20th Century Fox, the character Neytiri, voiced by Zoe Saldana, and the character Jake, voiced by Sam Worthington, are shown in a scene from "Avatar." (AP Photo/20th Century Fox) The 2009 3D blockbuster Avatar ranks No. 1 on the list of most pirated movies, reports MovieFone via TorrentFreak. Despite director James Cameron's prediction that 3D would discourage illegal copies, pirates still downloaded Avatar 21 million times. (It's still the highest-grossing movie of all time.) Runners-up for most pirated include the Dark Knight and Transformers, each with 19 million downloads, followed by Inception (18 million) and the Hangover (17 million). Full list here. Read These Next The police files in the Idaho murders are extremely unsettling. Will we be calling 'artificial intelligence' something else? Doctors allegedly played "music bingo" as a man died. The return of Yellowstone's wolves is aiding biodiversity. Report an error