The season finale of Game of Thrones has set a new piracy record, with 1.5 million downloads in eight hours, a number that will swell to over 10 million during the days to come. In addition, the episode is also broke the all-time record for the number of people sharing a single file at the same time.
It was heard that a comprehensive law enforcement action targeted scene release group “SPARKS” and its associates earlier this month.
TV blog, SoapHub, took a deep dive into the murky waters of torrent downloads and the results are kind of surprising, if not a bit odd.
Now, The Pirate Bay, the infamous torrent hub is setting sail (get it, because of pirates?) into the streaming world.
Lawsuit is coming...
The problem is that this show is only offered for HBO subscribers. I'm not going to pay for HBO for only one show that I want to watch. If they provided more avenues to watch the show, it would probably help reduce piracy.
Is HBO going to pursue them? What happened to that?
Not in Canada..... I can't afford cable and the limited HBO Canada is not worth it. Give me HBO Now and I'll buy it.......I love supporting good content just let me access it!
I subscribe to the NOWTV streaming service in the UK, which shows Game of Thrones almost immediately after airing (we don't have HBO).
But the quality was so utterly awful (stuttering) that I had to watch using other methods.
Not all of those pirates haven't paid to see the show.