Het vierde seizoen van Game of Thrones zit er op, en brak tegelijk ook alle download records ooit. Want maar liefst 1.5 miljoen mensen haalde deze laatste episode via het Torrent protocol binnen. Volgens de website Torrentfreak gaat dit de aankomende dagen nog meer worden, en dan tellen niet eens downloads uit de nieuwsgroepen mee.

The season finale of Game of Thrones has set a brand new piracy record, with a quarter million people sharing a single file at the same time. During the first 12 hours roughly 1.5 million file-sharers downloaded a pirated copy of the popular show, a number that will swell to over 7.5 million during the days to come.

The fourth season of Game of Thrones has been the most-viewed so far, both through official channels and among pirates.

The season finale was therefore expected to break all previous records. The official U.S. ratings that just came in show that "The Children was the most viewed season finale thus far, with 7.1 million people tuning in.

In the black market the same episode did well too, setting a mind-boggling piracy record. The latest episode resulted in the largest BitTorrent swarm ever. That is, never before have so many people gathered to share a single file on the Internet.

A few hours after the first torrent of the show appeared on torrent sites, the Demonii tracker reported that 254,114 people were sharing one single torrent at the same time. 190,701 were sharing a complete copy of that particular torrent while 63,413 were still downloading.