With a million downloads on BitTorrent in less than a day, the season premiere of Game of Thrones is breaking records on multiple fronts. Never before has there been a torrent with so many people sharing a file at the same time, more than 160,000 simultaneous peers. Data gathered by TorrentFreak further shows that Australia has the highest piracy rate of the popular download destinations, while London tops the list of pirate cities.
As expected, the new season premiere of Game of Thrones has generated quite a bit of activity on various BitTorrent sites.
Hundreds and thousands of downloaders went out to grab a copy of the show, breaking the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever in the process.
A few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded the OpenBitTorrent tracker reported that 163,088 people where sharing one single torrent. 110,303 were sharing a complete copy of that particular torrent while 52,786 were still downloading.
These are mind boggling numbers that we’ve never seen before.
Source: Full Article @ torrentfreak
As expected, the new season premiere of Game of Thrones has generated quite a bit of activity on various BitTorrent sites.
Hundreds and thousands of downloaders went out to grab a copy of the show, breaking the record for the largest BitTorrent swarm ever in the process.
A few hours after the first torrent of the show was uploaded the OpenBitTorrent tracker reported that 163,088 people where sharing one single torrent. 110,303 were sharing a complete copy of that particular torrent while 52,786 were still downloading.
These are mind boggling numbers that we’ve never seen before.
Source: Full Article @ torrentfreak
Haha! I read the title and burst out laughing. Of course downloading stuff is wrong... *looks around cautiously*. But awesome, Game of Thrones kicks all kinds of ass and deserves to break all kinds of ratings.
ReplyDeleteNiceeeeeeeeeeee,sshhh! ;)
ReplyDeleteWhat HBO sees: "Too many people are illegally downloading our stuff". What everyone else sees: "Too many people are illegally downloading this show because HBO won't make this easily, legally available across all regions".
ReplyDeleteWell, happy to contribute. Oh wait.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations GoT! :-)
ReplyDeleteThat explains how many seeds I found this morning when tried to download the 720p that usually is a bit slower in the first hours.
ReplyDeleteAs long as they buy the Blu Ray, it's all good :)
ReplyDeleteExactly Mr Gibbs and you know what, I would happily pay for it otherwise, that is good quality, no ads, on demand, for me to keep and play on any device...
ReplyDeleteI know they won't ever do it but if they made GOT episodes available to buy immediately after it aired (with no country restrictions) I would happily pay for it, ditto with every other US show I watch.
ReplyDeleteActually HBO aren't that bothered by it because DVD sales are still breaking records, recent quote from EW
ReplyDelete"I probably shouldn’t be saying this, but it is a compliment of sorts,” Lombardo said. “The demand is there. And it certainly didn’t negatively impact the DVD sales. [Piracy is] something that comes along with having a wildly successful show on a subscription network"
http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/03/31/hbo-thrones-piracy/
It doesn't seem like HBO executives care. They can reduce the piracy by a huge margin by making just the one show the show available for purchase at a reasonable price online for consumers worldwide on the night of the premiere, but they would much rather package it with subscriptions to HBO's services. I read an article where someone said their current business model is working for them so they won't change it.
ReplyDeleteand you exclude the DVD buyers??? ;)
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