Movie pirates’ ‘Passion’

Mel Gibson’s box office smash “The Passion of the Christ” broke the ignominious record as the most-pirated movie on Internet file-sharing networks in April, an online piracy tracking firm said Wednesday.

The movie may have slipped out of the box office top 10 in recent weeks, but its popularity among Internet users looking to score a free copy has reached a new fervor.

According to California-based BayTSP, 36,693 copies of “The Passion” were circulating on Internet file-sharing networks such as Kazaa and eDonkey. Universal Studio’s “21 Grams” came in second with 32,035 pirated copies.