Contagion: The "prophetic" movie that went viral with illegal downloads soaring

In recent weeks we have been living in our country as well nightmare which goes by the name New Coronavirus - COVID-19.

ΌWe should of course show more prudence in the situation that has been formed and let him panic aside. With her outburst pandemic (now) started by China in end of January, many were the ones who remembered the film Contagion (Greek Title: Pandemic), a film of Steven Soderbergh which essentially describes in very black colors a situation similar to the one we live in today (more about her and her creepy similarities with reality here).

This movie (as untested) and if it sounds in these admittedly difficult times, is done… viral!

It is indicative that from the time period from 1^η January until 4 March Contagion the downloads of the pirated version of Contagion really… were launched! Until January 24, Contagion was downloaded from torrent sites approximately 200 times per day, while after 25/1 this number reached at some stage 1500 downloads the day.

In fact, when the virus appeared in the US, then the above number was launched in 18.000 downloads the day! Although it is very difficult at this stage to count how many times Steven Soderbergh's film has been downloaded, nevertheless in the iTunes rentals service it climbed to position 15 when a few days ago it was not even in the… 100 position.

Of course, the reason for the escalation of pirated downloads of Contagion is also due to the fact that it did not exist in Netflix or at HBO, that's why this explosion happened. Let's hope that in a little while we will watch a little more… happy movies!

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