The Game of Thrones returned to the TV screens from HBO, and set a new viewership record last Sunday, with pirate distributions hitting red.
Η The 8th season premiere had almost 55 million pirate views, from illegal streams and downloads in the first 24 hours, according to the analysis company MUSEUM.
Of these 55 million pirate downloads, the MUSEUM reports that the vast majority (76,6%) came from unofficial content streams of the episode, while illegal downloads accounted for 12,2%, public torrents for 10,8% and private torrents for just 0,5 %.
For comparison, his new episode Game of Thrones of HBO, a total of 17,4 million viewers watched it through the official channels on the three platforms (the cable channels and the two Internet streaming services, HBO Go and HBO Now), 11,8 million through traditional TV channels and 5,6 million through Streaming. These numbers are likely to rise in the coming days, as more and more viewers watch the episode from its official distributions HBO, but also of pirate distributions.
X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X MUSEUM, the country with the largest pirate distributions were India (about 10 million downloads), and China (with about 5 million downloads), respectively.
The United States, on the other hand, came in third with nearly 4 million illegal downloads.
The excitement for the series will increase as the last season unfolds. This is good news for the ratings of the HBO series, and if they continue at the same pace they will surely break their own records.
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