Teen-party film Project X was the most pirated movie of 2012, according to the TorrentFreak website.

With almost nine million downloads,Project X was more popular with pirates than Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol, The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers and Sherlock Holmes: A Game Of Shadows, which rounded out the top five.

The data was compiled through all major BitTorrent trackers, which showed little significant change in the total number of movie downloads, compared to 2011.