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Turns out, the most pirated television show is mostly downloaded in Australia because Australians are represented far above their population in the pirating world.

They do more pirating per capita than any other country around the globe, according to a survey released earlier this year by the data and analytics company Musicmetric.

"Australia, with just over 19 million downloads, placed sixth in the top 10 for music downloads in the past year," the Sydney Morning Herald explained when the survey was released in September. That might not seem like a lot, but "with a population of 23 million for those 19 million downloads [Australia] was comfortably the most frequent user of unofficial or illegal sites."

We asked Torrent Freak's Ernesto if he could give us a country-by-country breakdown of the most pirated films. Sadly, he couldn't.

"Unfortunately not," Ernesto said via email. "This would require far more extensive logging and we don't have the resources to do so."

Was there any chance that he could tell us how many of this year's Project X downloads came from Down Under?

"The only thing I can say is that 7 percent of the people who are currently downloading the film are from Australia," Ernesto said.

Seven percent? Crikey!