Game of Thrones tops TV show internet piracy chart

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BBC News - Game of Thrones tops TV show internet piracy chart

Game of Thrones has emerged as the most-pirated TV show over the internet this year, according to news site Torrentfreak's latest annual survey.
It said one episode of the series had racked up 4,280,000 illegal global downloads - slightly more than than its estimated US television audience.

The site said that overall there had been a "small increase" in the amount of illegal sharing.

That was despite a "levelling out" of the activity the previous two years.

The rise also followed increased efforts to shut down or block websites providing access to copyright infringing material.

Investigations by the US, Mexican and Ukrainian authorities led to two of the best known file-sharing services disappearing earlier this year - digital locker service Megaupload and Bit Torrent link site Demonoid.

The administrators of Newzbin2 - a site which aggregated links to illegally copied material sourced from Usenet forums - also abandoned the operation after the UK courts forced internet service providers (ISPs) to block access...

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Also:

Most pirated TV shows of 2012

1. Game of Thrones
2. Dexter
3. The Big Bang Theory
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. Breaking Bad
6. The Walking Dead
7. Homeland
8. House
9. Fringe
10. Revolution

(Source: Torrentfreak)

[Shonk]

I must be getting old i havnt leached any of them series's

[dholdi]

I must be getting old i havnt leached any of them series's

Lol, me too, only heard of 2 of them.

[gymno]

I haven't seen a single minute of any of them.

And i'm not old