Rutgers Ranks #1 In Illegal Downloads [VIDEO]

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights football team is climbing the national rankings but is already ranked number one on another list: illegal downloads.

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TorrentFreak.com says despite colleges and universities across the county spending thousands to add anti-file sharing software on their networks, it's still happening. Rutgers landed at the top of the list with 1809 hits, or active IP-addreses downloading content from the internet.New York University is in #2 at 986 hits and the University of Houston comes in at #3.

The top 5 most downloaded files at Rutgers are the movies Fast Five, Cars 2 and Puss in Boots, the game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, and the album The Dreamer, The Believer by Common.

#	University	Hits
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1	Rutgers University	1809
2	New York University	986
3	University Of Houston	795
4	University of Southern California	776
5	Texas A&M University	768
6	The George Washington University	767
7	University of Minnesota	720
8	State University of New York at Buffalo	610
9	University of Maryland	602
10	Tennessee State University	530
11	Northeastern University	513
12	Michigan State University	495
13	Wayne State University	488
14	Columbia University	479
15	Boston University	467
16	Vanderbilt University	460
17	North Carolina Central University	450
18	University of California, San Diego	435
19	Old Dominion University	425
20	Ohio State University	395
21	University of Michigan	388
22	Case Western Reserve University	387
23	University of Texas at San Antonio	382
24	Sonoma State University	381
25	The Pennsylvania State University	381
26	University of Colorado	378
27	Virginia State University	378
28	Villanova University	377
29	Purdue University	375
30	Indiana University	374
31	Clemson University	374
32	Lindenwood University	366
33	Harvard University	361
34	Marquette University	360
35	Grambling State University	358
36	University of California at Berkeley	355
37	University of Arizona	343
38	University of Washington	341
39	Fordham University	334
40	University of Illinois	333
41	Georgetown University	329
42	University of Nebraska-Lincoln	324
43	Montclair State University	322
44	University of Wisconsin Madison	319
45	University of Utah	311
46	University of Delaware	301
47	University of Pennsylvania	300
48	Duke University	298
49	University of Hawaii	295
50	State University of New York at Stony Brook	291

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