Cyber pirates get the best of Deadpool
'Deadpool', 'Kung Fu Panda 3' and 'The 5th Wave' are the past week's cyber pirate booty, leading the downloads on file-sharing site BitTorrent.Other movies on the list, in order of popularity, are IP-Man 3, The Hateful Eight, The Revenant, Zootopia, The Big Short and Spectre.Last month, niche publication TorrentFreak reported that Kickasstorrents and Pirate Bay were the most visited torrent sites of the year so far.Pirate Bay has a ranking of its top torrents, categorised as audio, video, applications, games, porn and "other".On the music side of things, Kanye West's latest studio album continues to rule Pirate Bay's Top 100 audio torrent list. Last month his album, Life of Pablo, went torrent "gold" with over 500000 downloads from torrent sites within two weeks of its release, exclusively through streaming service Tidal and West's personal website...
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