The most pirated video game of 2009 - it's Modern Warfare 2 in a landslide

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The votes are cast! Or, rather, the seeds and peers are cast! After poring through numerous lists of figures, the nautical masters over at TorrentFreak have tallied up the total number of (illegal) video game downloads in 2009. This year's winner: Modern Warfare 2. Big surprise.

What might surprise you is the sheer volume of downloads: 4.1 million. In six weeks. Hahahah. Sorry, it's unprofessional to laugh. In contrast, the Sims 3 managed 3.2 million -- in seven months.

To put this into perspective, back in the early days of BitTorrent, a large games group shifted 300,000 copies of Doom 3 during its opening weekend. TorrentFreak go as far to say that download figures in 2009 are double those of 2008 -- mirroring the growth of uTorrent (which now has 52 million users!)

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was also the most-pirated game on the Xbox 360.The PC titles far outweigh the console games in terms of total downloads, probably because pirating on consoles is still a lot trickier.

Hit up the TorrentFreak article if you want the full charts.

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