They put it on Sky Atlantic in the UK which you can only get with Sky unlike almost every other channel. Shit like this sends people to piracy.
Sky Atlantic started after Sky we're forced through regulation to make Sky One available to other providers. The same company owning content and distribution is a disaster for consumers.
On Sky Now TV which is £8 per month and shit. An absolute piss take for people already paying for Virgin for example like me.
Sky ticket allows you to stream at 720p only! (No reason for piracy, but unacceptable in 2019).I just got myself a 5€ subscription to Sky Ticket in Germany. Thats a very fair price and I could watch it Monday morning at 1080p, no buffering. I will also watch Westworld season 2 inbetween. A few years ago you still had to get an expensive Sky TV subscription. If you pirate it here you have no excuses anymore.
Yeah, I watched it on Crave the other day, and while it does the job and I'm glad we no longer need cable subscription to watch GoT.... 720p in 2019 is a fucking joke, especially for a show like GoT where you miss so many details. Why can't they make it at least 1080p? Damn cheap bastards.... charges us 20$/month and that's what we get. I'll gladly unsub when the season is over.
You would only need to subscribe for a month to see all of S8.
GOT is the true treasure for pirates.
I remember when GOT 1st started in the UK and it was exclusive to Sky TV customers. You were expected to pay a hundred'ish bucks a month and be locked into an 18 month contract just for the privilege of getting to watch GOT for a few months a year.
I can't help but feel the rampant piracy that followed from this awesome business decision caused HBO to out pressure on Sky to create their Now TV streaming service and make GOT available at a reasonable price.
HBO now like 10 bucks a month lol.
Torrenting just ain't worth the effort and shitty quality
GoT is the most pirated show of all time. Something can be a success and still pirated that doesn't make piracy ok.That's just not true otherwise GOT wouldn't be the success it is right now. For a long time we had to wait for weeks/months or even a year to get GOT, now we get it live and piracy is way down and the local provider is making money hands over fists.
I think the idea was for At&t to sell phone service for free HBO access, but they couldn't work it out in timeWhen pirates are more adept at getting high quality versions of your show into the hands of millions of people around the world pretty much instantaneously, just maybe you are leaving money on the table.
GoT is the most pirated show of all time. Something can be a success and still pirated that doesn't make piracy ok.
Portuguese HBO streaming service delivered the episode 70 minutes late because the service had technical issues the moment all the people got on to watch at 2am. Lots of people on social media saying they will not renew for 5€ (after the free month most of them are on) and will just pirate stream the next episodes..
I mean, some entire countries literally can't even access the series. I get your point tho. Pirates gonna pirate.Ehhh, as a former "pirate", the community and piracy advocates that just enjoy getting it for free will continue to do so. 8 years it ago it was just a different excuse as it is now. 8 years ago it was "just give me the OPTION of streaming and I'll gladly pay!". Now that you can, the excuse is the quality of audio and sound, or the price.
As a former "pirate everything" who had most of my family do it too, and that was for everything ( from games to series/movies manga, anime ), I saw literaly everyone in my family and friends convert to netflix when it came to France.Ehhh, as a former "pirate", the community and piracy advocates that just enjoy getting it for free will continue to do so. 8 years it ago it was just a different excuse as it is now. 8 years ago it was "just give me the OPTION of streaming and I'll gladly pay!". Now that you can, the excuse is the quality of audio and sound, or the price.
Ehhh, as a former "pirate", the community and piracy advocates that just enjoy getting it for free will continue to do so. 8 years it ago it was just a different excuse as it is now. 8 years ago it was "just give me the OPTION of streaming and I'll gladly pay!". Now that you can, the excuse is the quality of audio and sound, or the price.
I mean I pay for Sky and I am able to watch it there, but I still got the episode at work in 1080p which was such a massiv difference in quality that I will do the same with the following episodes. Sky Go is such a shit show.
Yeah and the quality is absolute rubbish 720p with awful sound.
Can't blame people for pirating high quality copies when the only paid version available to them is completely unacceptable quality wise.
Give me a high quality 1080p service that streams it and I'll pay for it.
Ohhhhh got you. Well that is a big factor I'm sure. Thirsty fans living in places where it isn't available.
I"m not arguing the quality is too bad for you to consume or fine as it is. All I'm saying that the reasons people use to pirate game of thrones continues to change as access changes.
Damn yall calm it down. HBO now is only like 15 bucks. Cancel it after the season is over as I'm going to do...until Westworld hits that is.
Sky ticket allows you to stream at 720p only! (No reason for piracy, but unacceptable in 2019).
Crave's quality is absolute garbage. However, I watched it "On Air" and the quality seemed much better than what I typically see from Crave. I'll have to check out the on-demand episode to see if the quality has diminished at all.
There's usually always a way to legally obtain something, but people don't want to because it usually costs moneyThis happens every year, and will only continue to happen now that more shows are becoming exclusive to their respective streaming services. I dont know what the solution is, but they arent really making things better.
https://torrentfreak.com/game-of-thrones-season-premiere-pirated-54-million-times-in-a-day-190417/'Game of Thrones Season Premiere Pirated 54 million Times in a Day'
Data published by piracy monitoring firm MUSO suggests that the season opener of Game of Thrones was pirated 54 million times in the first 24 hours. Unauthorized streaming services were most used, while torrent downloads were good for roughly ten percent of the total. Most pirates come from India, followed by China and the United States.
As usual, the torrent download figures quickly ran into the millions. However, little is known about the traffic that goes to web-based streaming portals, which have outgrown traditional file-sharing sites in recent years.
One of the main problems is that it's impossible for outsiders to know exactly how many visitors pirate streaming services get. Traffic data for these sites are not public, which makes it difficult to put an exact figure on the number of views one particular video has.
According to MUSO, the premiere episode of the seventh season of Game of Thrones has been pirated more than 54 million times during the first day alone. This massive number is largely driven by streaming websites.
For comparison, HBO's official, or legitimate, viewing numbers add up to just 17.4 million.
The data reveals that online streaming sites accounted for 76.6% of all pirate views, followed by web downloads at 12.2%. Public torrent sites were good for another 10.8% and private torrent sites close the row with 0.5%.
MUSO's finding are partly based on data from SimilarWeb, which uses a sample of roughly 200 million 'devices' to estimate website traffic. Website visits are then seen as "downloads or view," and the sample data is extrapolated into the totals. Whether people actually saw the full episode is unknown.
In addition to the pirate numbers and sources, MUSO also revealed the top countries where the Game of Thrones premiere was accessed. India is in the lead here with 9.5 million pirate hits, followed by China and the US with 5.2 and 4 million respectively.
The top ten of countries with the most Game of Thrones pirates is completed by the UK, Nigeria, Iran, Kenya, France, Canada, and Australia, as seen below.