Game of Thrones Finale Resets Piracy Record Benchmark

It seems silly at this point to continuously say “Game of Thrones 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.

It was only a little under a month ago when Game of Thrones 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.

This is not the first time Game of Thrones 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.

• Published on 06/15/2015 at 9:30 AM CDT
• Last updated on 06/15/2015 at 9:30 AM CDT