Game of Thrones was already the most-popular TV series among Torrent file sharers. The UK ranked fifth in a league table of countries where internet users were making pirate copies, according to Irdeto’s research. A snapshot of global illegal downloading by the anti-piracy firm Irdeto found more than 7m episodes from seasons one to four were downloaded between 5 February and 4 April. We’re actively assessing how this breach occurred.”Įven before the weekend leak,the hotly anticipated return of the programme was said to have prompted a huge surge in iDanternet piracy, with fans worldwide making more than 100,000 illegal downloads of previous series’ episodes every day. HBO said: “Sadly, it seems the leaked four episodes of the upcoming season of Game of Thrones originated from within a group approved by HBO to receive them. It pointed out that it plans to simulcast Game of Thrones with the HBO broadcast from next week.
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Sky said it would not comment on illegal download figures. The first episode of the HBO show, which aired at 9pm ET in the US, was simulcast in 170 countries, but Sky Atlantic, which broadcasts Game of Thrones in the UK, decided not to take part in the simulcast, showing it first at 9pm BST on Monday.
Other countries hungry to see the latest developments in Westeros were Greece, The Netherlands, Australia, Brazil and the Philippines. The UK led the way in pirate downloads, with 9.8% of IP addresses sharing the content based in Britain, followed by the US with 9.1%, India 7.8%, Canada 5.4% and France 4.2%. The first episode was the most popular, with more than 135,000 users sharing it and more than a million pirate copies made, according to the site, which added its figures are likely to be half the true total of pirated copies once streaming and direct downloads are taken into account. Their digital watermarks have been blurred.īy Monday morning they were the most pirated files in the world, with each having been downloaded around a million times from public torrent sites alone, TorrentFreak reported. The four leaked episodes, which emerged online at the weekend, appear to have been ripped from review DVDs sent to the press. British internet users have downloaded more pirate copies of the latest leaked episodes of Game of Thrones than viewers from anywhere else in the world.Ī snapshot of IP addresses sharing leaked episodes of the new season shows nearly one in 10 were based in the UK.
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