(140 million each episodes) including streaming worldwide.
Data published by piracy monitoring firm MUSO suggests that the seventh season of Game of Thrones was pirated more than one billion times. Most of the traffic was generated by unauthorized streaming services, with torrent and direct downloads accounting for just a small piece of the pie, roughly fifteen percent.
The seventh season of Game of Thrones has brought tears and joy to HBO this summer.
It was the most-viewed season thus far, with record-breaking TV ratings. But on the other hand, HBO and Game of Thrones were plagued by hacks, leaks, and piracy, of course.
While it’s hard to measure piracy accurately, streaming in particular, piracy tracking outfit MUSO has just released some staggering numbers. According to the company, the latest season was pirated more than a billion times in total.
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.
The vast majority of the pirate ‘views’ came from streaming services (85%), followed by torrents (9%) and direct downloads (6%). Private torrent trackers are at the bottom with less than one percent…
Game of Thrones (season 7)
The seventh season of the fantasy drama television series Game of Thrones premiered on HBO on July 16, 2017, and concluded on August 27, 2017. Unlike previous seasons that consisted of ten episodes each, the seventh season consisted of only seven. Like the previous season, it largely consisted of original content not found in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series, while also adapting material Martin revealed to showrunners about the upcoming novels in the series.The series was adapted for television by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss.
HBO ordered the seventh season on April 21, 2016, three days before the premiere of the show’s sixth season, and began filming on August 31, 2016. The season was filmed primarily in Northern Ireland, Spain, Croatia and Iceland.
Game of Thrones features a large ensemble cast, including Peter Dinklage, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lena Headey, Emilia Clarke, and Kit Harington. The season introduces several new cast members, including Jim Broadbent and Tom Hopper.
This isn’t even the worldwide number
- While more than a billion downloads are pretty significant, to say the least, MUSO is not even looking at the full pirate landscape.
- Muso’s streaming data doesn’t include Chinese traffic
- As if that’s not enough, alternative pirate sources such as fully-loaded Kodi boxes, are not included either.