You won't believe the number of people who watched 'Game of Thrones' illegally this season
Game of Thrones Season 7 was a wild ratings success, averaging more than 10 million live viewers for most of its seven episodes, and more than 30 million per episode when factoring in delayed viewing and official streams.
But popularity is a double-edged sword, and no one's toppling Thrones from its perch as the most pirated show on television; apparently the penultimate season was illegally viewed over one billion times — and that might be a conservative number.
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According to MUSO, a site which tracks piracy behaviors, Season 7 was illegally streamed, downloaded, and torrented a whopping 1,029,787,668 times (as of Sept. 3). That's an estimate based on a sample size of 200 million devices, so take the numbers with a grain of salt, but boy howdy is it a big one (TorrentFreak points out that this doesn't even include the Chinese market). Read more...
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