I’m pretty much an anachronism. I still do things like buy and rent DVDs. Heck, I even go see movies in theaters from time to time. That’s old news; headed the way of the buggy whip. These days nobody pays to watch movies. They download them for free on the Internet.

According to Torrent Freak, The Dark Knight will lead the way this year as the most illegally downloaded film of 2008. DVD-rips of the grim superhero epic were downloaded off BitTorrent more than a million times this week. That makes it the most downloaded movie of the week and the site figures it will“crush Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and Transformers, as it will easily become this year’s most pirated movie.” Anything that crushes crap like Transformers is good in my book. While I’m sure the producers would like to have the money they lost to pirating, they will just have to lay on their billion dollars and figure out a way to get over it.