And the most sought after film on Earth is...Project X?

On Thursday, Torrent Freak released lists of 2012's most pirated films and television shows. Game of Thrones topped the list of illegally downloaded television shows, with more than 3 million downloads per episode. It's not hard to understand its appeal to the mostly young, mostly male pirate downloaders of the world: It's a critically acclaimed HBO production that features at least several pairs of exposed breasts per episode, so...

But the most illegally downloaded film of the year is a little more surprising — according to Torrent Freak, more people illegally downloaded the low-budget, no-name, high school party flick Project X than any other film this year. Worldwide, Project X made $100.9 million in 2012 — a number that puts it solidly in the bottom of the middle ranks as the 57th highest grossing film of the year; sandwiched between the horror exploitation flic The Devil Inside and the quirky animated ParaNorman.

Why was that relatively unknown film downloaded more times than, say, BuzzFeed's best movie of the year, The Dark Knight Rises? Or the highest grossing film of the year, The Avengers?

We have a theory: Aussies.