Pirates have beaten HBO to the punch. That’s exactly what happened when the first four episodes of the Game of Thrones Season 5 have leaked online a couple of days back, spoiling the popular series’ official premiere in 170 countries in the process which is slated to take place on Sunday night in the US.
According to TorrentFreak, several copies of the leaked GoT season 5 episodes were first seen on IPT, a private torrent tracker. It didn’t take long before these episodes made their way to other popular torrents sites like KickAss and TPB, and has been downloaded more than 100,000 times during the first three hours that it has been uploaded.
The sheer amount of GoT fans eager to download/watch the leaked episodes before its official premiere isn’t at all surprising, since the Game of Thrones has already earned the title as the world’s most pirated series even before these episodes were leaked online.
This, however, doesn’t change the fact that the leaked episodes will prove to be a huge blow for HBO who has been battling rampant piracy of their popular series. HBO Now was supposed to be the answer to their piracy woes (or at least lessen it), but as it turned out the pirates got the better of them.
An HBO spokesperson confirmed that the leaked episodes are indeed legit, and that it “originated from within a group approved by HBO to receive them.” That statement seems to back up TorrentFreak’s informant’s claim that the leaked episodes were early copies that were sent to the press for review.
i was hoping that that they would end up releasing the remaining 6 episodes, therefore having all 10 episodes available on HBO Now (just like Netflix, all episodes of their series are available on day 1). But i guess, that’s just wishful thinking LOL
Winter is coming…
This is so hard. I have second thoughts… pagka tapos mo panuorin yun 4 episodes ang hirap uli kasi after 1 month mo pa mapapanuod ang episode 5. Wait na lang me…
Ep 5 is coming
i’ve seen the production of GOT season 5 from a documentary and the preparation was remarkable and needless to say, very very expensive. Although I am so happy of the pirated copy, this is quite unfair for HBO and (I must be utterly crazy) I fell cheated.
fell cheated?
Baka Winterfell cheated…
hahaha…
*felt
thanks
would’ve been acceptable if the pirated copies went out after it was shown in the big screen, at least the loss will be minimal.
Nandyan na ba si pPrince Aegon?