JSYK, Game of Thrones fans are poor.
Game of Thrones Crowned Most Pirated TV-Show of the Season
As predicted, Game of Thrones has the honor of becoming the most downloaded TV-show of the spring season.
While there are many reasons for people to download TV-shows through BitTorrent, airing delays and HBO’s choice not to make it widely available online are two of the top reasons.
Game of Thrones is particularly popular in Australia, where people have to wait a week after the U.S. release comes out. Nevertheless, even in the U.S. hundreds and thousands are downloading the show for free, although many would love to pay for it if HBO offered a standalone HBO GO subscription.
It’s clear that HBO (and others) prefer exclusiveness over piracy, which is a dangerous game. They might make decent money in the long run by selling subscriptions. However, this limited availability also breeds pirates, and one has to wonder how easy it is to convert these people to subscriptions once they have experienced BitTorrent.
For now, Game of Thrones appears to be the top contender to throw Dexter off the throne by the end of the year, to become the most pirated TV-show of 2012.
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Below we have compiled a list of the most downloaded TV-shows worldwide (estimates per single episode) for the spring season up until June 1st 2012, together with the viewer average for TV in the US. The data for the top 10 is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from all public BitTorrent trackers.
| rank | show | downloads | est. US TV viewers |
|---|---|---|---|
| torrentfreak.com | |||
| 1 | Game of Thrones | 3,900,000 | 4,200,000 |
| 2 | How I Met Your Mother | 2,830,000 | 8,870,000 |
| 3 | The Big Bang Theory | 2,750,000 | 15,040,000 |
| 4 | House | 2,310,000 | 8,720,000 |
| 5 | Mad Men | 1,870,000 | 9,780,000 |
| 6 | Modern Family | 1,800,000 | 10,600,000 |
| 7 | Revenge | 1,730,000 | 7,850,000 |
| 8 | Desperate Housewives | 1,660,000 | 11,120,000 |
| 9 | Family Guy | 1,600,000 | 5,740,000 |
| 10 | Supernatural | 1,540,000 | 1,780,000 |
Wah. I can't figure out how to stop the wall of text so I took out the second article. LOL! Nice save!
I can't get the formatting fixed for the second article (the whole reason why I posted, pretty much). So if anyone who knows how to use a computer wants to submit it:
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/201
It's really good-- at least, it has more interesting questions than most interviews. Deserves its own post anyway!
Edited at 2012-06-08 10:46 pm (UTC)
It's possible to dislike a character/think the character is unnecessary without bearing any ill will toward the actress. Esme Bianco is a perfectly good actress. That doesn't mean I am obligated to like her character.
He's luck he's off twitter rn b/c I would be bombarding him. What a bullshit character.
How bout you assholes focus on characters that actually exist instead of making up shit for this random white lady to do.
Really?
No. What's unfair is you ignoring why certain parts of the fandom dislike Ros and instead pushing the blame onto Esme, when it has nothing to do with the actress or how she portrays the character.
Haha that's so hilarious. It just happened that way... Cogman, you can fuck off too.
And yes apparently the OP took out the second article. But he just freaking loves Ros.
dnw james purefoy tho. and i kno ppl love him but i got another guy in mind and if he gets cast i will run around screaming I TOLD U SO to everyone even tho i'm keeping his name to myself, ahhahahaha!