Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Just Leaked

[VScott]

it's stuff like this that gives video piracy a bad name...

Game of Thrones is already one of the most pirated shows on TV, and now, on the very eve of season 5’s release, word is that the first four episodes have been leaked simultaneously.

The copies were first spotted on the private torrent tracker IPT yesterday afternoon, but by the evening, the files had made their way to big public sites including The Pirate Bay, RARBG and KickassTorrents. According to Torrent Freak, during the first three hours of the leak, the episodes were downloaded more than 100,000 times, and that number may climb to over a million by later today.

This is unhappy news for HBO, to say the least. The cable network carefully timed the release of its new standalone streaming service, HBO Now, around season 5’s debut. With a primary selling point of HBO Now being easy, cable-free Game of Thrones access, and now, nearly half of the first season out before the first episode premiers...well, let’s just say Cersei probably isn’t the only one who’d like a few heads brought to her this morning.

http://gizmodo.com/nearly-half-of-game-of-thrones-season-5-just-leaked-1697305966

[FLPanhandle]

1. Someone either screwed up or got paid to copy the episodes

Once the files are out, they are out.

I don't think this is a big deal for HBO though, the books have been out forever so we all know what's going to happen.

[Iggo]

2. Yeah, but the people who read the books know how to keep our fucking mouths shut.