While it’s hard to translate all of the illegal downloads to viewers, we can safely assume GoT‘s viewership numbers would have steadily risen had the Euron Greyjoy-like pirates not gotten their hands on the episodes.
Season begins with first episode called The North Remembers, official air date is April 1, 2012. Season seven concluded more than a week ago and nine of the 15 most popular torrents on The Pirate Bay are Game of Thrones episodes. Action TV Show Game of Thrones (Season 2) Torrent is rated with 9.5 points out of 10 on IMDb (Internet Movie Database) according to 1,346,094 ratings by critics.
Per the site, the illegal streaming began with huge numbers-more than 90 million people torrented the season premiere-and continued to snowball from there. The vast majority of the pirate ‘views’ came from streaming services (85%), followed by torrents (9%), and direct downloads (6%).” To put this into perspective, this means that on average each episode was pirated 140 million times, compared to 32 million views through legal channels. According to the company, the latest season was pirated more than a billion times in total. “While it’s hard to measure piracy accurately, streaming in particular, piracy tracking outfit MUSO has just released some staggering numbers.
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