HBO's Game of Thrones was the most pirated TV show of 2012, and early download stats following last night's season three opener have it on track to receive that "honor" yet again this year. According to TorrentFreak , there's been a flurry of illegal downloading activity in the hours since the hit series returned last night. At one point, a single torrent reportedly had over 160,000 simultaneous connections. But adding all the various releases together reveals that the episode has already been downloaded over one million times.
That's even after HBO offered up new ways of catching the premiere; the network allowed customers to stream Game of Thrones via HBO Go at the same time that cable subscribers watched it live. Based on the...
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