Game of Thrones Finale Resets Piracy Record Benchmark 

It seems silly at this point to continuously say “

Breaks Piracy Record” when it’s their own records they are breaking. At this point, they’re just resetting the benchmarks higher and higher so as to make it more difficult for others to ever catch up.

reset the benchmark for most downloads in a 12 hour period with episode 6, “Unbowed Unbent Unbroken.” Now, according to Torrentfreak, they’ve broken that record all over again.

Data gathered by TorrentFreak shows that during the first eight hours, the season finale has been downloaded an estimated 1.5 million times already.

Never before have we seen this many downloads in such a short period of time, and last year it took half a day to reach the same number. Based on this figure, the download count is expected to increase to more than 10 million during the days to come.

has hit that number, but it is the fastest they’ve hit it, and that puts them on track to smash through both their 12-hour period record and their 24-hour period record. It’s pretty much assured at this point that the show will have the record for most pirated show of 2015. After all, we are combining this with the above numbers for episode 6, the numbers they put up for episode 5, “Kill the Boy,” and the massive numbers garnered by the leak of the first four episodes. AND, let us not forget that the show was already The Most Pirated Show of 2015 even before the leak or the season happened.

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Dear HBO: Very nice to make an iPad app available to watch HBO as a reasonably priced subscription.

Too bad that ALL the content is not available for my region, even shows that are public on Youtube, like John Oliver’s skits. Y’all do realize what service IS available in my region right?

Don’t complain about piracy when you make it this difficult to give you money.

Not to mention that if you want to watch it without Apple, or cable…

I’m just hoping that by the time Season 6 comes around, they’ll have updated HBO Now to include Android & consoles. We’re finally cutting the cord, but this is the #1 show in my house. I may have to finally bow to piracy.

I am so disappointed that if we want game of thrones on a multitude of devices we have to buy it several times , in America you buy the Bluray and get the DVD and Ultraviolet codes in one swoop , so you can watch at home on the commute and at work , we have to buy it all seperately !