From CIO Today Report:

Illegal file traders are generating more P2P traffic by offering high-quality copies of movies released on DVD rather than illicitly filmed cinema releases, according to Internet security Relevant Products/Services from company BayTSP.

Sin City, starring Bruce Willis, was released on DVD in the US on August 16, 2005, yet still topped the illegal downloading chart in December.

A full 52,973 copies of the film were available for download across the eDonkey, FastTrack and BitTorrent networks -- 2,500 more than November's most popular film, The Interpreter.

A spokesman for BayTSP said that the majority of films on the list are available on DVD, indicating that "file traders are downloading DVD-quality rips of older films rather than lower quality copies of new releases."

Note: BayTSP has several interesting reports on piracy available, in exchange for free registration.

Link from DC Info (Weekly Newsletter of the Distributed Computing Industry),