{"id":120422,"date":"2017-09-06T11:25:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T09:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120422"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:26:11","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T09:26:11","slug":"game-of-thrones-season-7-pirated-over-1-billion-times-muso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/120422-game-of-thrones-season-7-pirated-over-1-billion-times-muso","title":{"rendered":"Game of Thrones Season 7 pirated over 1 billion times &#8211; MUSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Piracy monitoring group MUSO has released its piracy data for Game of Thrones season 7.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the pirate viewing happened over unlicensed streaming services (85%), while torrents (9%) and direct downloads (6%) made up 15% of the show\u2019s piracy.<\/p>\n<p>Private torrent trackers accounted for less than 1% of total pirate traffic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/game-of-thrones-season-7-pirated-over-a-billion-times-170905\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TorrentFreak highlighted<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that, on average, each episode was pirated 140 million times \u2013 while legal channels saw an average of 32 million viewers per episode.<\/p>\n<p>MUSO\u2019s data for streaming traffic is\u00a0sourced from SimilarWeb, which uses a sample of 200 million devices. The sample data also covers thousands of popular pirate sites.<\/p>\n<p>The sample excludes traffic from China, and \u201cfully-loaded\u201d Kodi boxes.<\/p>\n<p>MUSO CEO Andy Chatterley said the various leaks HBO faced this year contributed to the high piracy numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Chatterley said this is supported by the fact that the sixth episode, which leaked days before it officially aired, was pirated more than the season finale.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Total downloads and streams<\/h3>\n<p>MUSO broke down the total pirate downloads and streams of season 7 of Game of Thrones as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Episode 1 \u2013\u00a0<strong>187,427,575<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Episode 2 \u2013\u00a0<strong>123,901,209<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Episode 3 \u2013\u00a0<strong>116,027,851<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Episode 4 \u2013\u00a0<strong>121,719,868<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Episode 5 \u2013\u00a0<strong>151,569,560<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Episode 6 \u2013\u00a0<strong>184,913,279<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Episode 7 (as of 3 Sep) \u2013\u00a0<strong>143,393,804<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Episode Bundles for Season 7 \u2013\u00a0<strong>834,522<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Total (as of 3 Sep) \u2013\u00a0<strong>1,029,787,668<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/221234-new-game-of-thrones-pirated-90-million-times-muso.html\">New Game of Thrones pirated 90 million times \u2014 MUSO<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Piracy monitoring group MUSO has released its piracy data for Game of Thrones season 7.<\/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":[4555,101],"class_list":["post-120422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-game-of-thrones","tag-piracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120422","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=120422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120422\/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=120422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}