Game of Thrones takes most-pirated TV show crown

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Game of Thrones takes most-pirated TV show crown

DetailsMichelle Clancy | 30 December 2014




For the third year in a row, Game of Thrones takes the crown for most-pirated TV show, according to TorrentFreak stats.


HBO's fantasy drama hit saw more than eight million downloads for the 2014 season finale, far outstripping its next-closest competition. The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory had an estimated 4.2 and 3.6 million downloads, respectively.

Game of Thrones is a pirate favourite overall; earlier this year it broke an all-time piracy record when more than 254,114 peers shared the same torrent file simultaneously.

"Overall there is no sign that TV-show piracy is declining, on the contrary," TorrentFreak noted. "The download numbers for the most popular shows continues to rise, sometimes exceeding the number of traditional viewers in the US."

How I Met Your Mother (3.5 million downloads) and Gotham (3.2 million) rounded out the top five.

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Game of Thrones has the honour of becoming the most downloaded TV-show for the third year in a row with an estimated 8.1 million downloads, according to the TorrentFreak website.

The Walking Dead and The Big Bang Theory are runners up with an estimated 4.2 and 3.6 million downloads respectively.

The list continues with 4) How I Met Your Mother (3.5 mi); 5) Gotham (3.2 mi); 6) Arrow (2.9mi); 7) Grey’s Anatomy (2.8mi); 8) Vikings (2.7mi); 9) Suits (2.5mi) and 10) South Park (2.4mi).