Let's face it: the economy is bad, and despite the claims of everything getting better, we're still being frugal with our money in case the proverbial poop hits the fan. So, we can all think of better places to spend our hard-earned $15 than on a movie. With that in mind, it makes sense that a lot of movies got pirated in 2013.

TorrentFreak has the full list of pirated movies, and here they are:

1 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
 8,400,000 $1,017,003,568
2 Django Unchained 8,100,000 $425,368,238
3 Fast And Furious 6 7,900,000 $788,679,850
4 Iron Man 3 7,600,000 $1,215,439,994
5 Silver Linings Playbook 7,500,000 $236,412,453
6 Star Trek Into Darkness 7,400,000 $467,365,246
7 Gangster Squad 7,200,000 $105,200,903
8 Now You See Me 7,000,000 $351,723,989
9 The Hangover Part 3 6,900,000 $351,000,072
10 World War Z 6,700,000 $540,007,876

Needless to say, downloads aside, it's obvious that the finances of the films that were amongst the most downloaded weren't affected in the least... which is interesting, considering that piracy destroyed the music business as we knew it for a time. Why, then, did it not have the same effect on the film business?

According to TheWeek.com, there's a variety of reasons for that, not the least of which being the theatre experience does matter, the pirates' tastes in movies is different from the mainstream, and a pirated film doesn't necessarily mean that the film won't do well at the box office. "Almost every movie on the "most pirated" list was a major box-office success. The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey -- which topped the list despite hitting theaters in 2012 -- grossed over a billion dollars worldwide. Fast & Furious 6 and Star Trek Into Darkness ranked among the highest-grossing movies of the year. Even Gangster Squad, the lowest-grossing movie on the list, managed to gross $105 million worldwide on a $60 million budget. The bottom line: Widespread piracy doesn't mean that a movie won't succeed -- but making a successful movie does mean that more people will pirate it," reports The Week.