The first episode of Game of Thrones Season 7 aired early this morning, and was quickly uploaded to various torrent websites.<\/p>\n
Torrent sites listing the new episode included The Pirate Bay, RARBG, and, 1337X.<\/p>\n
Episode 1 aired internationally at 03:00 SAST, and began appearing on piracy websites half an hour later.<\/p>\n
This means a pirated version of the episode was uploaded before the episode had finished broadcasting on TV.<\/p>\n
Game of Thrones has historically been one of the most popular downloads on piracy websites.<\/p>\n
HBO has attempted to\u00a0combat illegal downloads<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0of the show, including sending takedown requests and appealing to ISPs to take action against piracy.<\/p>\n The first episode of Game of Thrones Season 7 aired early this morning, and was quickly uploaded to various torrent websites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":96737,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4555,101,23003],"class_list":["post-119159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-piracy","tag-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119161,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119159\/revisions\/119161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0ISPs told to block piracy sites in South Africa \u2013 Sources<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"