{"id":119209,"date":"2017-07-20T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-20T08:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=119209"},"modified":"2017-07-20T10:15:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T08:15:42","slug":"hbo-is-keeping-an-eye-on-game-of-thrones-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/119209-hbo-is-keeping-an-eye-on-game-of-thrones-pirates","title":{"rendered":"HBO is keeping an eye on Game of Thrones pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HBO is monitoring popular torrent swarms of the recently-aired first episode of Game of Thrones season seven,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/game-thrones-pirates-monitored-hbo-warnings-way-170719\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TorrentFreak reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Torrent indexers listing the new episode included The Pirate Bay, RARBG, and, EZTV.<\/p>\n<p>Episode 1 aired internationally at 03:00 SAST, and began appearing on torrent sites half an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>This means a pirated version of the episode was uploaded before it had finished broadcasting on TV.<\/p>\n<p>TorrentFreak reported that HBO\u2019s anti-piracy partner, IP Echelon, started sending warnings to torrenters soon after the episode appeared online.<\/p>\n<p>The warnings include the IP addresses of alleged BitTorrent peers, and they asked the ISPs to which the addresses are registered to alert their subscribers to prevent further infringements.<\/p>\n<p>Game of Thrones torrenters have been in HBO\u2019s sights since last year when the network started\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/164278-hbo-fighting-game-of-thrones-piracy.html\">taking a tougher stance on copyright infringement<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Before season six started airing last year, HBO had a relaxed stance on piracy, saying that it was a compliment of sorts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt certainly didn\u2019t negatively impact the DVD sales,\u201d HBO programming president Michael Lombardo\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2013\/03\/31\/hbo-thrones-piracy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in March 2013. Lombardo added that piracy comes with having a successful show on a subscription network.<\/p>\n<p>Time-Warner CEO Jeffrey Bewkes, who oversees HBO, echoed Lombardo\u2019s sentiment in an earnings call later that year, saying that being the most pirated show in the world was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/1615052-time-warner-management-discusses-q2-2013-results-earnings-call-transcript?all=true&amp;find=time%2Bwarner%2Bcable\"><strong>better than winning an Emmy<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/219992-new-game-of-thrones-episode-on-piracy-sites-immediately-after-launch.html\">New Game of Thrones episode on piracy sites immediately after launch<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HBO is monitoring popular torrent swarms of the recently-aired first episode of Game of Thrones season seven,\u00a0TorrentFreak reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":102909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4555,8516,8305],"class_list":["post-119209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-hbo","tag-torrentfreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119209","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=119209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}