'Twilight' one of year's top five most illegally downloaded movies

Unfortunately, with regard to Twilight, it's not always good news.

Among the top five most pirated movies of the year is Twilight, according to the BBC. The film is joined by Star Trek, Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, The Hangover, and RocknRolla on that list. Other films which were heavily pirated this year included Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, and District 9.

While, from the looks of this list (and a scan of their situation in this year's box office), pirating did not hinder a strong showing theater sales, it's still not the most settling news that illegal downloading is one of the lists which Twilight tops this year. Though, it does speak highly of the interest surrounding the film . . .

What needs to be remembered, though, is that in order for pirated versions of a film to be made available on the web, a person has to actually go into a theater and break the law at the outset by recording the movie. This jeopardizes their liberty - all for the sake of saving the would-be viewer a few bucks. While a website which distributes the film illegally might be more difficult to ascertain and prosecute, a person sitting there in a theater with a video camera is highly accessible (as we have well seen).

So, do think twice before watching a pirated version of the film. Though it's too late for 2009, maybe the saga can avoid 2010's list.